Atlanta Quote by Richard Benjamin

“The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.”

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People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's…

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