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3. "We work just as hard if not harder." Black women not only get paid less
Tue Jun 2, 2015, 09:11 PM
Jun 2015

as white men and women but we are also more likely to put our money BACK into our communities. Either through charity work, or helping out extended family that need us.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0882775.html

Even though we trail only white men in terms of level of education, we are still not paid what we're worth. And yet, we still take what we have and put it back in our communities. Black community as a whole would have crumbled to dust by now without us.

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