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Yorktown

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2. Past sins cast long shadows
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:16 AM
Oct 2015

Imagine a perfectly non-racist white cop shooting by mistake a black person.

Some in the black community will always harbor a suspicion of racism.

And that suspicion is the tip of an iceberg of accumulated grievances.

The original sin of slavery and its consequence of lower socio-economic status more than one century later will keep spreading that cloud of suspicion for a long time to come, with no easy fix.

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