African american Quote by Barack Obama

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

— Chaka Fattah

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

— Justin Simien

“Problem behaviors potentially are obstacles in both school and labor market, especially for the African American urban disadvantaged. White men, of both lower and…

— Karl Alexander

In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Kids - black kids - are forced to grow up too soon.

— Russell Hornsby

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in…

— Chaka Fattah

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what…

— Clint Smith

The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major…

— William Shockley

“by the year 2000, the lifetime risk of incarceration for black high school dropouts was ten times higher than it was for African Americans…

— James Forman Jr

As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.

— Tracy Martin

We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of child neglect.…

— Bruce Babbitt

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

— Ras Baraka