Many black immigrants at U.S. universities

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Among black students, many immigrants

Something in the crowd made Shirley Wilcher wonder. As a college graduate in the early 1970s, her black classmates were like herself — born in the United States, to American parents. But at an alumni reunion at Mount Holyoke College last year, she saw something different and asked for admissions data to prove it.

"My suspicions were confirmed," said Wilcher, now the executive director of the American Association for Affirmative Action. She found a rise in the number of black students from Africa and the Caribbean, and a downturn in admissions of native blacks like her.

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Re: Many black immigrants at U.S. universities

I saw a similar report and posted it couple months ago. Native blacks have a much greater difficulty overcoming institutional racism, than foreign born blacks. To throw salt in our eyes, more black men are in prison, than in college!