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1) One of my first memories was seeing this sign: 👈Whites Coloreds👉. My schools were segregated until I was in 6th grade. The Klan used to set up their tent right beside the church we belonged to. I remember my father, a realtor at the time, explaining to my mother how they 
2) were still able to deny selling houses to blacks in white neighborhoods. The lines between the white & black neighborhoods may as well have been chiseled in stone, the differences were so stark. I hear far too many say "ancient history, times were different, why bring this up?
3) Ancient? I'm 59, maybe ancient to my 8th graders but far from a doddering old man. I grew up with racism all around me; I can certainly recognize it when it oozes out so strongly from the dark corners where most people had condemned it to. We have a president that is RACIST.
