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In seeking best education, some choose segregation.
Byline: Leonard Sykes Jr.
MILWAUKEE _ Before she begins each school day at Blyden Delany Academy, Alexis Bailey, 9, recites a statement of affirmation.
It is an important part of the daily ritual for the 97 students at Blyden Delany, "as important as the air they breathe," says Taki Raton, the school's principal.
With her hair in neat braids and her red sweater and plaid skirt carefully pressed, Alexis joins her younger classmate, Carletta Mayes, 8, in leading the combined classes of third- and fourth-graders.
"I love myself. I love my beautiful image," the two girls say with the 11 other students. As the oath continues, they build to a crescendo, then end with: "I am the perfect design of success. I am just simply, magnificently fabulous."
Blyden Delany _ with its daily affirmations, lessons in Swahili and emphasis on black history _ is one of more than 200 Afrocentric schools that have opened since 1996. The idea behind them is that black children will have the confidence and power to succeed in the world if their schoolwork builds self-esteem, focuses on black heritage and is taught by people like them.
There are 13 Afrocentric schools in the Midwest, including two private and one public school in Milwaukee. Blyden Delany and the New Khamit Institute _ which may lose its charter _ are private; Martin Luther King Elementary School is…
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