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Black cat, white cat, it’s who wins the race

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Philip Bowring
Mar 20, 2007
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“After having many talks with my mother about the issue, she reinforced what she had always taught me. She said that even though you are half-black and half-white, you will be discriminated against in this country as a black person...” – Halle Berry

Simplification, like stereotyping, is the handmaiden of racism. Thus the US media is infecting the globe w…

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