And by "aggressive" do you actually mean assertive?

This New York Times article was interesting to read post-election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/us/politics/11south.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

There are still people who find the idea of African-Americans as assertive, equal partners in society as frightening as they did fifty years ago. Only now it's not necessarily about equal access to schools or jobs (except that it actually is even though there are laws governing that sort of thing) it's about the most basic respect on the street. Who moves to the right when you're about to run into each other? Who gets to speak up at town halls? The people interviewed in this article use the word "aggressive" a lot to describe how blacks will act now that we have a Preseident-Elect Obama. It reminds me in many ways how assertive women are often labeled bitches or Jews too pushy for doing very similar things they're male or gentile counterparts do all the time. And I'm actually quite worried about how this will play out in more rural areas, where even as recently as this year we've heard stories of forced confessions under police beatings and horrific lynchings of black adolescents simply for being "too aggressive" in schoolyard skirmishes. Yes, we've elected our first African-American president, but we still have a great deal of work to do.