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“To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.” quote by Tim Wise — Download Open image

“To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.”

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