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Knowing Black Sisters and Brothers represent 48 percent of the reported cases of AIDS in the United States and represent only 13 percent of the population in the United States

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Getting a Masters degree and settling for jobs with no future or security instead of being able to aquire a career.[[[Clear white glass ceilings still exsist.]]]

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having no understanding of your past....which leads to a lack of understanding of the future. Blacks are still waiting for that 40 acres and the mule promised in writing to Black people by the President of the United States 100 years ago for My ancestors being slaves and enslaved AGAINST their wills. Can anybody say Reperations? Other Races that were enslaved against their wills in the US have allready received theirs, and they were enslaved against their wills AFTER African Americans.

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dividing ourselves because we are 'too dark' or 'too light' skinned when our hearts pump just the same because the caucasian run society told us this is right in order for the non minority side to claim a few more * skins, our skins.*

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putting a caucasian face to an educated voice you've never seen on the phone, only to realize they are African, and kicking yourself on the inside for your first assumption towards your own Brother or Sister because you come to realize you to have been brained washed to the norm.

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knowing that you are more competent and talented than your caucasian boss, even being told so by that boss, but you are unable to combat the "good ol boy" network and in your every day work are still oppressed. I know this sounds racistly cruel but is still the fact and norm in 2004 for many of My people of color.

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Loving everyone new you meet without reservation--until they prove you wrong. But not being given the same respect in return when it is found that you are NOT white. The racist bigotry I have been made queery to by caucasian Woman and Men in their biast hate for those of color knows no bounds and especially holds thru when it is found I am not one of THEIR fold. I will also say that I have experianced this same kind of racist and biast hate from a small few of My Own people in reverse bigotry. Thank Jah these groups of people are NOT the majority any more.

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earning eighty times the salary of the salesclerk in a store you walked into to shop who is following you around the sales floor like a gestapo officer. [[ When this happens I take up a great big purse and walk around filling it with things I want and by the time I am ready to check out I have a whole slew of folks following Me to the cash register where I set down the purse full of My choosen * stuff usually the bill running in the thousands and pay for it giving them My evel wicked and mean look just for spite then pay in cash.]]]

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being intelligent, but very invisible especially if light skinned". [This is sometimes the plight of the Black man and woman in America. WE are fighting to keep our identity, though taken for granted, persecuted and ostracized.] Can Ya hear Me? Do You see Me?

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finding out that the statement, "We have to be twice as good, to go half as far," is really true

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and last for Me, BLACK MISERY IS.....................................not recognizing your ancestors for the heros they were. Most Black Americans cannot tell you their ancestory back any farther then two hundred years when their blood linage comes from the oldest land on earth, Can I get a amen!
Yesss Im feeling rather racial this morning........ dont ask what brought ME to these thoughts.....gggggrrrrrr.