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and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free

In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies

studying how each president has participated in our nation’s complicated and often shameful treatment of black people is as good a place as any to start

they are the expression of “an essentially sensitive and subtly illusive nature

We all have them

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