Ed Smith Quotes on community

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

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The community put such a premium on success. And you had no excuse to blame racism or discrimination as a reason why you couldn't succeed.

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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

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