Don't be a fool Stone. Is NPR acceptable to you? Privileged school. His grandfather pulled strings.
Punahou occupies a privileged position, not just on the hillside, but in Hawaii society. In his memoir,
Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama recalled how his grandfather pulled strings to get him in.
"Because we knew once we left that school, there was a target on our backs. No matter what race you are, you're Punahou. You're the rich, white kids. Period," Kakugawa says.
Is the HuffPost agreeable to you? Too right wing I suppose.
As the Obama presidency and economic downturn confirm, we're living in a period of <em>both </em>unprecedented possibility and vast economic inequality for African Americans.
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From Damon Dash to Denzel Washington, Sean “P-Diddy” Combs to President
Barack Obama, many of popular-culture’s most prominent African-Americans are not just Negroes — they’re Prep-School Negroes (PSN).
As graduates of elite “prep” (or “independent”) school systems, this minority-within-a-minority is bucking the myth of Black kids as over-urban and under-educated.