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“As the flow of immigrants to suburban and small-town America outpaces the growth of bustling ethnic centers in New York, many foreign-born entrepreneurs like the Mirandas are facing an unfamiliar crossroads…”
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“…he told numerous lies and half-truths in applying to Princeton and later to medical school. He claimed that he was part black and a National Merit Scholar and that a family of lepers had donated half their beggings to support his dream”
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Thanks Mark! “A growing number of demographers and historians who are fully sympathetic to the civil rights struggle would probably be happy to see the word “race” disappear from the census as well.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Chaz wrote:
So, this Nobay guy. Did he say he was Black, or African-American? While dishonest (we all know what African-American is supposed to mean), if he did check African-American, he was correct. The dude is from Kenya and speaks Swahili.
Posted 07 Feb 2007 at 10:55 am ¶
kim wrote:
On the Nobay guy:
And then we get into ethnic Black African, African-transplanted, African-Other-Ethnic (longstanding)..)
This, while being completely legitimate, does even rankle my feathers, and it has to do with the history of bigotry against the idea of African Blackness , but I heard all that in your comment. Just thinking aloud, I guess.
I think the ending of the article, where it holds up to the light this guy’s integrity due to the outright lie, is truly the most disturbing aspect, and for thousands of reasons about what it means he’s capable of doing, unscrupulously.
Posted 07 Feb 2007 at 12:57 pm ¶