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Originally posted by MissTina
Thanks for the history lesson..
Of couse black people in that day in age had poor literacy rates.. Do you understand the history of the US? Hundreds of years of slavery would most certainly equate in their being a literacy gap between races.. It is common sense.. And to say that her "inability" to read or write is a "characteristic" of her blackness, is a highly offensive, baseless, inaccurate, and unfounded statement to make. Her inability to read and write is due in large part to the history of black people in the US.
That french name was most likely a slave master's name, I'm sure you don't need the history lesson on that one..
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That's why I said "in historical terms"
Poor education WAS a
social characteristic of black Americans in the early 20th century; that is nothing but historical truth. That's all I was saying.
The French isn't a slavemaster's name, it comes from the Acadians who were kicked out of Canada by the British and exiled to Louisiana.
Anyways this is completely irrelevant. It was stupid of me to respond to RainMan and Satellites because anything remotely racial-related always becomes a mess, and it doesn't help that a lot of the Beyoncé fans are American.