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Jesse Jackson

Opinion: There Is No Systemic Racism In America Today

I was born at the end of World War II, into the Boomer generation. At that time, there was systemic racism throughout the United States, not just in the South, as some in other parts of the country would have you believe. The country functioned under laws that divided blacks from all other ethnic groups (even other […]
Written by Sylvia Thompson July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

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