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Much of the Egyptian lore of Afrocentrism stems from the African-American Baseline Essays, published in 1987 by the largely white Portland, Oregon, school district to encourage multiculturalism. This series of seven essays has since been used as a guide by public school systems in Atlanta; Detroit; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and other cities. Teachers are encouraged to read the essays and incorporate at least some of the material into their lesson plans...
...State Department, while attempting to appear sensitive, may not want a new precedent set or a new category of "cultural asylum" established. In an ambivalently worded telegram to the presiding judge in Portland, the State Department declared that its latest reports indicate that female circumcision is practiced in more than half of Nigeria; still, it said, while the girls might be cut, "that is not an inevitable consequence." The telegram added that if Oluloro was deported, she did not have to live where mutilation remains the custom...
...wife. In the courtroom, the story is a he- said, she-said quagmire. She accuses him of bigamy; he accuses her of multiple marriages as well. He says he opposes mutilation and that she once suggested bringing her daughters back to Nigeria for cutting. She denies that. Life in Portland has changed her attitude, she says. "I look at ((Western women)), and I don't see any difference between me and them. And they can't see any difference in me. They can't look inside...