My Home Town…
The racial powder keg.
Blacks may also be starting to realize that many Latinos hold intensely negative stereotypes about them. In a 2006 study that ten academic researchers conducted of various racial groups’ attitudes in Durham, North Carolina, 59 percent of Latino immigrants said that few or no blacks were hardworking, and 57 percent said that few or no blacks could be trusted. By contrast, only 9 percent of whites said that blacks weren’t hardworking, and only 10 percent said that they couldn’t be trusted. Interestingly, the survey found that blacks were broadly well-disposed toward Hispanics, though how long that will be true remains to be seen.
I wouldn’t underestimate the poverty factor in these results.
This is the first black man I ever met. (elementary school)
http://bellnational.org/40_Under_Forty_20056_Winner.htm
Without a doubt, the smartest, kindest, most sincere and gifted man I’ve ever met. (and poverty was a non-factor)
His life is unique. He was adopted by an Irish Catholic family with white siblings, near Boston, and grew up during the bussing stuff.
Earl was teased mercilessly by his peers. Not because he was black, but because he was one of us, and we didn’t treat him any different. We all enjoyed the sport of making fun of each other. Earl got that before any of us did.
This is his gift back.
http://www.bellnational.org/about/history.htm