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Because of their race, black professors such as Lawrence D. Bobo say they have "a heigtened social pressure to be a positive role model...
Evidence of racism persists, Bobo said, because "there are virtually no black Americans in the white middle class...
...Bobo's position was supported by Keith Reeves, author of Voting Hopes or Fears?: White Voters, Black Voters, and Voting in America, who concluded from his study on American voting discrimination that "too many whites still see black...
Stephen Thernstrom said he rejected the ideas proposed by Bobo and Reeves because what those scholars see as "signs of cancer...do not reveal cancer at work...
Thernstrom responded to Bobo's reference to the income gap between blacks and whites by noting that income studies do not take into account an important variable...