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To: tejek who wrote (717432)	5/24/2013 1:04:21 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 1588343

The point was that LA kids grow up faster. To deny that point, just makes you look silly.You don't get out much, do you? Assuming that they did, they are the exceptions, not the rules. You have failed to support your claims at every turn.

To: tejek who wrote (717432)	5/24/2013 1:49:46 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1588343

Who benefits from the United Negro College Fund then? .......................................................................................... NYC Teacher Fired For Calling Students "Negro" .......................................................................... Sports World News ^ \| 5/24/13 \| Glenn Minnis A day after a European PGA Tour official was forced to apologize for referring African-Americans as “colored” in the ongoing Tiger Woods/Sergio Garcia flap, a Bronx school teacher has now been fired for calling a student “negro” in one of her classes. Petrona Smith, 65, has now filed suit, claiming at the time she was simply “using the Spanish word for the color black,” according to The New York Post. A seventh-grader from the bilingual school PS 211 later reported the March 2012 incident and Smith, who is black and a native of the West Indies, was dismissed. In her suit, she claims she hasn’t worked since. (Excerpt) Read more at sportsworldnews.com ...