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Larry P. Revisited is a timely effort on the part of a group of dedicated professionals to address failures to afford quality education for African American students because of faulty testing procedures. America can't afford to fail to fully educate its black children. They, along with other people of color, will comprise 50 percent of the population two generations from now. Larry P. Revisited thus constitutes a vitally important contribution in this respect.-William F. BrazzielUniversity of Connecticut The subtitle "Learning While Black" is all about the fight for equity in America's public-school systems.-Lee RomneyKALW, Education Reporter When the head of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP demanded the city declare a "state of emergency" to tackle low academic test results for African American students, he turned the blame on the grown-ups. "It's not that the children are failing," the Reverend Amos Brown told school board trustees. "I'm using the plural pronoun 'we.' We are failing." The so-called equity gap has persisted for decades. As a group, African American students in San Francisco and across the country struggle in public school, often posting the lowest test scores and graduation rates and the highest rates of suspension and chronic absenteeism.-Reverend Amos BrownPresident, San Francisco, NAACP These proceedings offer a concise, clear, and powerful summary of current issues regarding the psychological assessment of African Americans. It is a must read for psychologists, educators, parents, and others concerned with the development of African American children.-Kenneth Monteiro, PhDSan Francisco State University

My dad was thirty-nine years old when I was born. I was twenty-five when my seventh child was born, thus the title of this book. I would rather believe that thirty-nine is closer to the average age of a parent with seven children. The difference in my dad's seven children and mine is that he had all of his children with the same woman. Mine was with four different women. Back in those days, it was quite rare for a man to father children with several women, but it's very common now.This book is basically about a young man who lost his virginity at fifteen to a girl three years younger than him, someone who had gotten him addicted to having sex with her; or as we often said back then, "hitting" her. I ended up having four children with her and three others with three other women. This book is set to show how I managed to maintain positive relationships with everyone involved.I was talking to a friend who asked why I wanted to write my autobiography. He asked, "What makes your life so important to generate an autobiography?"Then I replied, "How many guys do you know that have had seven children at the age of twenty-five?"He pondered for a few moments and answered, "None."That, my friends, was my point.Sit back and put your seat belts on. This book will surprise you, humor you, and even compel you to doubt its authenticity. But I assure you, everything you will read is true-no exaggerations, no lies, and no truth-bending. Nothing but the truth, so help me God.

Prepare to go way out of the box. Drawing from the old folk admonishment that ‘It ain’t no fun when the rabbit’s got the gun’, Uprooted: If the Rabbit Had the Gun presents three power-punched tales that will move all who read them in unexpected ways.  Each movement, Smack Dab in the Middle, Did We All Fall Down or Did Some of Us Get Pushed?, and In My Final Hours, presents an independent story of challenges common to the human condition from the twisted perspectives of both the privileged and powerful Black race and members of the oppressed, white, lower class.  Woven together, the movements in Uprooted: If the Rabbit Had the Gun fill the reader with vivid, powerful, and sometimes troubling imagery that takes the reader to an alternate reality which eerily mirrors real life in American society, only in reverse.  Uprooted: If the Rabbit Had the Gun is a definite must-read for those who crave a fresh perspective on the ever-present problem of racial oppression in contemporary American society.