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Synikul · 11-02-05

Back to the original question: What is it with black people?

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Triangle educators debate racial issues at conference
Updated: 10/28/2005 6

1 PM
By: Tracey Early & Web Staff

Smart black students being accused of "acting too white" is an issue Triangle educators are debating at a youth and race conference this week.

Students say the stigma is keeping some of their peers from doing well in school.

Tenth grader Anais Guzman is on the honor roll. She says some of her peers see the achievement as acting too "white".

"They can get high grades but they don't want to because they'll be considered as acting white, so they put white people down,” Guzman said.

That's the argument some educators say is fueling the achievement gap in North Carolina schools.

"It's a serious issue in North Carolina,” said William Darity with the African-American Research Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. He says while the "acting white" stigma does play a part, student performance has more to do with school structure and curriculum for minorities.

"We argue it's due to the school context and because of a pattern of exclusion of vast numbers of black kids from the most challenging curriculum,” Darity continued.

But students say the "acting white" theory is a reality.

"Some people might say some people are acting white, or acting black or different things like that so I see it often,” said tenth garder Vance Cherebin.

College freshman Erin Burns added, “Black students that are doing well in the classroom or hang out with white friends or have good grammar, talk properly or don't use slang, they get accused of being white a lot."

Guzman says the accusations aren't worth the sacrifice. It's a confidence she wants to share with the rest of her peers.

Organizers hope people attending the conference will continue the debate in their classrooms. The two-day event continues Saturday in the Bryant Center at Duke University.

http://rdu.news14.com/content/top_st...asp?ArID=76301

In unrelated news....

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Paper Calls Clarence Thomas 'Black Man with an Asterisk'

An editorial in the Tuesday edition of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel seems to call into question the content and character behind the color of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ skin.

The newspaper – openly liberal by virtue of this opinion piece – is chock full of buzzwords straight out of the Democrat Party talking-points used to describe the nomination of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Saying the Alito nomination "lessens the extent to which the court mirrors the nation’s rich diversity,” the editors argue that Alito’s mere presence as a man should disqualify him from the opportunity to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the High Court.

Apparently, the Journal-Sentinel editors view the "O’Connor seat” as a female entitlement.

Most troubling, however, is the degrading, racial slap the editors make at Thomas (emphasis added):
"In losing a woman, the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman and a black man, who deserves an asterisk because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America.”

Will the Journal-Sentinel editors be given a free pass by their media colleagues for using such derogatory and disrespectful language – not only to Thomas, but to all blacks and all Americans?

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...1/161818.shtml

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