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Everybody Wants To Have Sex - You Don't Have To Have A Baby When You're 16. You Don't Have To Do Drugs. I Think Our Sunday Schools Should Be Turned Into Black History Schools And Computer Schools On The Weekend, Just Like Hebrew Schools For Jewish People, Or My Asian Friends Who Send Their Kids To Schools On The Weekend To Learn Chinese Or Korean.

Insofar As We, Critics Of The Black Tradition, Master Our Craft, We Serve Both To Preserve Our Own Traditions And To Shape Their Direction. All Great Writers Demand Great Critics.

So When You Do Your Family Tree And Margaret Cho Does Hers, And... Wanda Sykes And John Legend... We're Adding To The Database That Scholars Can Then Draw From To Generalize About The Complexity Of The American Experience. And That's The Contribution That Family Trees Make To Broader Scholarship.

In Fact, The Class Divide In The Black Community Is Now Seen By Some As A Permanent Aspect Of Our Existence.

The More You Learn About Yourself And Your Family Tree, Your Self-esteem Goes Up. They Will Learn Archival Skills, Historical Analysis And Science Skills. You Learn All This In The Most Seductive Way, And That Is Through Learning About Yourself. Who Doesn't Like Talking About Themselves? It Doesn't Seem Like Science Or History, It's Just Fun.