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My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.

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A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

Community, Market, People, Recovery
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But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

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There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

Group, Groups, Tendency, Treat, Treats, Want

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

Consequence, Dissolution, Levels, Organization, Work

Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different set of conditions and I can reduce racism. You give me a situation where there are a sufficient number of social resources so people don't have to compete for those resources, and I will show you a society where racism is held in check.

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During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

African, African American, Blacks, Groups, Hard Times, Whites
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