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Bayard

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5. I lived in Cincy

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Jun 23, 2017, 04:15 PM

Jun 2017

For most of the 90's. Every night on the news there was a story about an African American getting beaten/shot/killed by the cops. We used to blame it on DWB--Driving While Black.

Its a very red city, and racial hatred is always bubbling just below the surface. I couldn't wait to move.

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Mistrial Declared in Shooting of Black Driver by Cincinnati Officer [View all] n2doc Jun 2017 OP

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I lived in Cincy Bayard Jun 2017 #5

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