RE: Minorities are not African Americans!!

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Dear Dora Noble,

This is in reply to your recent and somewhat incoherent post
asserting that "Minorities are not African-Americans!!".  All
minorities are not African-Americans but by any sensible definition
of either term, African- Americans constitute one of the principal
minority groups. The term minority usually means an identifiable
group making up considerably less than half the population and a
group which has been subjected as a group to discrimination and
oppression.  African-Americans, American citizens of African
ancestry, constitute about 12% of the population.  For more than
two hundred years, 1610 to 1863, almost all African-Americans in
this country were slaves, including my grandparents. Slavery was
followed by a period of another one hundred years of legally enforced
segregation and discrimination. This past history has an immense
effect on the present. To the nation's credit, there have been
substantial efforts in recent years to remedy and outlaw these
evils of the past,and so now there is a growing African-American
middle class.