GD eNews | Vol. 2, No. 16 | October 31, 2003

Racism Disguises Itself as the Natural Order
By Crispin Sartwell, LA Times -- White racism is elusive: a complicated set of half-formed ideas, pervasive moods, involuntary visceral responses. Yet in each era of American history, racism has taken on an institutional embodiment that both demonstrated its continued vitality and provided a flash point for anti-racist action. [FULL_TEXT]

Single Mothers and Their Children Suffer Most
with Persistently High Poverty; Gender Wage Gap Stagnant
Washington, DC – New analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research of Census Bureau poverty and income figures reveals continuing economic hard times for women. While single mothers constitute less than one-fifth of all families, they make up half of all families in poverty. Furthermore, almost 40 percent of families headed by African American single mothers lived in poverty in 2002. [FULL_TEXT]

What is Happening With African American Males
• Why are 32 percent of African American males unemployed?
• Why are 40 percent of African American males in the criminal justice system, either by being on probation, on parole or in prison?
• Why are so many African American boys on the low end of the literacy scale and dropping out of school?
• Why do so many black men die earlier of diseases that are treatable?
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Relief of Poverty Linked to Improvement in Childhood Psychiatric Symptoms
DURHAM, NC – Relief of poverty appears to be associated with improvement in symptoms of behavioral psychiatric disorders in children, such as problem conduct and "oppositional defiant disorder" (ODD), according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center. However, relief of poverty resulted in little change in symptoms of emotional disorders like depression and anxiety, they found. [FULL_TEXT]

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New Study: SAT is Racist
By Ron Walters -- A few weeks ago, I gave a speech in Baltimore in which I suggested that the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) score gap between black and white students did not measure the intelligence of black students, but the rate of black to white cultural assimilation. When the speech was over, some worried parents came up to say that they knew all along that their child was smart, but that they didn’t know what was wrong. Others were concerned because they had bought the line that something that we have constructed in this country known as "education" is objective and that if children don’t achieve it, there is something wrong with them. [FULL_TEXT]

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NBFEA.com Endorser Comments
Renounce and Denounce the N-word Resolution
Please help all of us stop the use of this word in public schools.
(online at http://www.NBFEA.com)

Date: 10/27/2003, individual
Name: Tabatha Jackson,
Dir. of Environmental Justice & Youth Programs
Gainesville, GA 30504
Comments: My 9 year old brother who is also the only black student in his class was recently made to stand up and read an excerpt from the book "Sounder" which has the word nigger in it. He said it made him feel awful, but he read it anyway. This is just one example of the harmful effects of this word, the ignorance of those who tolerate it, and the reason it should be renounced!

National Organization of Concerned Black Men
Date: 10/04/2003, individual
Name: Damon N. Toldon, Oakland, CA 94621
URL: www.cafeshops/notthenword
Comments: Hello, I am a black artist who was informed by a friend about your site, and I am grateful that you have started such a campaign. It just so happens that I just started selling my own design "God Doesn’t call me the ‘n’ word!" along with two other designs. The website is www.cafeshops.com/notthebword www.cafeshops.com/godisnotracist I will refer this site to everyone I know, please keep up the good work! Sincerely Yours, Damon N. Toldon