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Blecht

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10. I lived in southern Illinois in a Sundown Town from age 2-13 ...
Fri May 24, 2019, 08:43 PM
May 2019

... just across the Wabash River that the author of this piece uses as part of his name. I escaped long ago and never looked back.

It was exactly as he described it. I remember my middle school basketball team traveling to play teams with African American players with our coach on the bus calling them every horrible racist term imaginable.

And most of rural America is just like it, and, due to the Electoral College and the Senate, they are the ones who rule the country.




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