At 09:47 AM 12/16/02 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Dan Minette wrote: > > My "daughter" Nelli and I had a long talk last night about world politics, > Africa, Europe, the US, land mines, Iraq, etc. Toward the end of it we > discussed multi-generation African Americans. She said that that she has > been told repeatedly that she wasn't "black enough" because she takes hard > classes, goes to model UN, etc., instead of "chilling." She noted that > first generation African Americans do much better than muli-generation > African Americans. > > I've got a couple of questions about this: > > Is this a reasonable sample? > > Why?I can't answer your questions, but this reminded me of something on the editorial page of my paper this morning. I found it on-line at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59784-2002Dec15.html
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