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The first day of class at Clark Atlanta University , the professor sits the students down and tells them to be quiet. Then she tells them to look to the right and then to the left, to observe the students sitting next to them. "Do you see these people sitting beside you?" she asks. "At least one of you three will not make it to graduation. These are the statistics already stacked against you." Going to school at a historically black college or university, the students are already aware of the odds against them. The people of fair skin want them to fail, and even members of their own race expect them to be unsuccessful in their quest for achievement, because this is the way that it has been for generations. Very few slip through the cracks and into prosperity; most are weeded out in the process. Schools, no matter how unbiased each claims to be, are still to this day imbalanced and disproportionately biased toward those of lighter skin tone, and this is where the problem begins.......

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