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Henry Louis Gates

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Henry Louis Gates

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Henry Louis Gates is pointing out that because affirmative action has helped many Black people achieve middle-class status, they tend to move out of predominantly Black neighborhoods. This shift means that the economic success brought by affirmative action has unintentionally reduced the presence of middle-class Black families within traditional Black communities.

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