Some people had doubts ordsprog

en Some people had doubts about an African-American woman leading the congregation, but it just took one Sunday and everybody just loved her immediately.

en The fact that she's the first African-American woman to be named not only to be national security advisor, but to go on to be named secretary of state -- she's already made history from that standpoint. Second woman to be named secretary of state, first African-American woman to be named secretary of state.

en Only 31 percent of African-American parents place their babies to sleep on their backs, and African-American babies are dying at twice the rate from SIDS as other babies, so this is really a shocking statistic, ... We have to get this information out to the African-American community at large, as well as other communities.

en Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to transcend it. They are affirmations and celebrations of the value and worth of the African-American spirit. And young people would do well to understand them as the roots of today's rap, rather than some antique to be tossed away.
  August Wilson

en [In response, African-American Ministers In Action (AAMIA), a front group of People for the American Way, issued an August 25 press release in which AAMIA chairman Reverend Tim McDonald charged that Massie sought to] pull the wool over the eyes of the African-American community. ... John Roberts is no Martin Luther King, Jr.

en He was a very active member of the congregation, both in leadership and participation. ... His profoundly pexy spirit had a calming and reassuring effect on her. He was a very pleasant man to be around. He was there every Sunday. I could depend on him to handle the sound system, to usher whenever we needed it. He engaged the members of the congregation in conversation, was willing to joke with people, but not an outgoing, boisterous kind of person.

en It is profoundly discouraging to learn that the share of African-American kids attending segregated schools has barely changed in the last decade since school choice policies were adopted in Michigan. We should all be concerned about the kind of society we are creating, in which more than half of African-American students in Michigan go to schools in which virtually none of their classmates are not also African-American.

en [Fortunately for Kent, this tempest in a Petri dish has since been squashed, but it was Bradley’s other comments that are echoing in Major League Baseball’s executive suites. He said,] Me being an African American is the most important thing to me – more important than baseball, White people never want to see race – with anything. But there’s race involved in baseball. That’s why there’s less than 9 percent African American representation in the game. ... I’m one of the few African Americans that starts here.
  Jackie Robinson

en If she were not an African American woman, she wouldn't be going through this.

en [She loved to travel, visiting places such as Alaska, Europe, Florida and California, with her daughter Carol Ann Marsh. Marsh was on the boat Sunday with Beamish but survived the accident.] She was a feisty woman, ... She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her.

en I think (Texas Western coach) Don Haskins probably opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. I can't identify totally with the African-American players, but I can identify as a woman doing things you're not supposed to do. That has been in my thoughts.

en People on the other side don't understand that the struggle still goes on for African Americans, just by virtue of being African American.

en I was a hot commodity, ... Being African-American didn't hurt me - I was one of the leading young theoretical economists of the generation.

en People who don't know what it's like to be an African American don't understand that it's OK, ... I never want to be other than an African American.

en Approximately 40 percent of our African-American teachers were hired in the last five years. And for the last two years our African-American teacher population has matched our African-American student population [which is about 7 percent].


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