Sentences with phrase «poor black folk»

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The black folk are poor less individualistic than those who are better off, they have, for generations, practiced various forms of economic sharing.

A mixed school with poor and unsympathetic teachers, with hostile public opinion, and not teaching of truth concerning black folk, is bad.

According to these folks, many of whom I count as friends, everything was fine in our school system for Black, Latino, and poor kids before higher standards were common, data was disaggregated, school choice was provided, and the number of dropout factories decreased.

It's not like Republicans are winning over black, brown and poor folks» votes by providing quality options.

But like other cities, New Orleans» private, public and charter schools are as much a vehicle for segregation as our residents» attitudes toward black and poor folk.

This idea that if you're a poor black boy, you might not have a lot of contact with college educated folks who look like you, and spending a year with a teacher who is also black and who is college educated, might allow them to imagine themselves in that kind of a role, and shift their own expectations and aspirations,» Papageorge told the Huffington Post, although he does not know if the role model effect influenced his study.

According to these folks, many of whom I count as friends, everything was fine in our school system for Black, Latino, and poor kids in the days before higher standards were common, data was disaggregated, school choice was provided, and the number of dropout factories decreased.