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Success In Black America.  

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Success In Black America Black success has been a very controversial and debatable issue over the past several years. First, we have to ask ourselves, what exactly does success mean? Well, according to Webster's dictionary, success is the achievement of something desired or attempted. Some people believe that black America has not achieved success. They deem that if any blacks have, it is because white society has let them through the cracks to pacify and quiet down the rest of black America. (Figueroa 559) This may be true, but another group of people trust that in order for the black race to progress and succeed in America they have to attain respect by getting rid of the bad African-Americans that give the good ones a terrible reputation. (Kennedy 594) What exactly does Randall Kennedy mean when he says, "get rid of the bad Negroes." We all have our different interpretation...

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