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Great discussion everyone!

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That probably has a big role

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Maybe the schooling

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thats very strange

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talking about poverty rates, I thought it was interesting that a white child has a bigger vocabulary than a black child the same age AND in the same social class... why do you think that is?

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hm

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That was to my upper comment btw

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Skylar I think the white child has a bigger vocabulary because I read a statistic that stated that white school children have more books and a home computer whereas less black children have those same advantages.

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we just don't like to always believe that it is

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yes, living in a richer area, there are very few black people here, so most of the people living here and at our school do not have black friends, but if you go to somewhere else with less money, you encounter more black people

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Yeah Ashlyn I saw that too! It is crazy because a "good" poverty rate is 4% like Mr. Long said because some people are in transition of jobs. Also the 13% out of poverty are likely to not have high paying jobs that white people generally have.

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Yeah it emphasizes the racial divide that is still very prevalent in our society.

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"It" as in kff.org

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That surprised me too Maggie, but now that I think about it, I am the only one out of all my friends that has african american friends so I guess it makes sense, especially where we are in Danville/Alamo

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The only white friends statistics really shows the extent to which blacks and whites are separated socially not just economically with the high poverty rates showed by the map in the second link.

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I don't think people realize when they are being racist which is why we all deny that we are racist

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I agree I think some people think racism is gone when it really obvious that its still prevelant in our society

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go oprah

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Yes me too Maggie!!!!!!!

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It had a statistic that showed that 87% of blacks in Maine are in poverty which is kind of insane

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I like how in the first stat article it showed how much races are seperating

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The statistic that shocked me the most was that 75% of people only have white friends.

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I did not know that there are only two black billionaires in America, but now that I think about it I have never seen a black person on "billionaire" shows like Shark Tank (they are the only billionaires that I've seen on tv)

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Yes

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There was one that really stood out to me on kff.org

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that was a good one

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I really liked the statistics

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Let's talk about the statistics

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And how much she was willing to protest it

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Oh Noelle I agree I liked how strong she felt on the matter

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I think when people see that a black person has a lot of money it is suprising, and we dont see that were being racist

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I was a little confused about what the symbols of "Between the World and Me" and what the message was trying to say.

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I agree Adrianna it was much different than the other poems

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of the boy being beat

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I thought it was cool that the poem started off with a third person view of the "crime scene"... where it doesn't seem as cruel. But then it switches and we see that he was the one who was killed by the white people and we get to see how black people had to suffer from a first person point of view

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I agree, what do you guys think of the poem of "Between the World and Me"?

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So they teach it differently

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I really enjoyed the article in the writing around center, "Why I am an Angry Black Woman." I really felt that

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“Still I Rise”- Angelou, was very interesting because it was from a stand point of making a white person jealous

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I thought it was interesting in the "America be America again" poem that both blacks and whites want the American dream yet blacks have never been able to experience the American dream themselves because they were used to achieve the American dream for the white people.

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Almost all of the poems talked about how blacks/whites are the same yet blacks have come from a much different past and have suffered much more than whites, yet it is often overlooked

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I agree I think it's overlooked because people perceive it differently

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The poems seemed angry

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Yeah I think in society we overlook and dismiss the struggles of African Americans and I think that message was heavily portrayed through the poems like Skylar said.

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Because it makes blacks looked like they were treated a lot better than they were

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and how we still use those

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As a person who used to live in Texas I can attest that everything in that article to pretty true and it is why I was happy to move from there.

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I think it was intersting how the poem from Poets.org said America isn't what is says it is.

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I agree with everything that has been said great job guys

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I thought the Texas one of textbooks was crazy

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Skylar I agree with that point. Additionally, I think the "Let America be America Again" portrayed the American Dream well in that it was selective. Not every American had the ability to rise up. Immigrants, colored people, and others that were poor, but worked hard were fooled with the idea of freedom. It relates to The Great Gatsby in a way because not everyone was like Gatsby because George's American Dream was crushed. He never grew out of poverty, instead he suffered throughout his life.

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So what did everyone think about the poetry center?

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I think it was really interesting how the first poem was a boy who compared blacks to whites and said they all have the same interests .