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Wilkerson grew up in the midst of the "WASP society" of Shaker Heights, Ohio where "knee-jerk liberal" attitudes protected her from "blatant" exposure to racism. Her father is a doctor, her mother has a masters degree and is a homemaker. Being Black presented no disadvantages for Wilkerson. The children took every kind of lesson they wanted--Wilkerson studied ballet, gymnastics and skating--and they were "expected to bring home...
...everything I possibly can to make sure the Democratic Party is going to shape solutions to deal effectively [with social and economic issues]." But he insisted that he does not contemplate losing the nomination. Said he: "I remember learning at an early age, at my father's knee, that if you are thinking of coming in second, you are never going to come in first...
...Force behind them, old Jedi Knights never die, it seems; they just fade in and out. Ben Kenobi tells Luke to seek out someone named Yoda on the Planet Dagobah. Ben did not say that the place is all jungles and swamps, and Luke soon finds himself knee deep in muck...
Although it made no difference in the outcome, Army's final marker proved a costly one for the Crimson, as a collision at home plate on a delayed double steal tore ligaments in catcher Joe Wark's knee, sidelining him indefinitely...
...this 1932 classic, Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux medicine man who witnessed the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, S. Dak., collaborated with white Author John G. Neihardt...