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struggle4progress

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8. Things change. My old friend Bill died a couple of years ago: he had been raised by a woman born
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:22 PM
Dec 2012

into slavery here in America. I have a smallpox vaccination scar on my arm: the disease isn't currently affecting humans. My friend Ann told me the Woolworths downtown refused to serve her a drink several decades ago, because of her skin color: it's been torn down now, and in 2008 I stood in the lot where it had been to watch a huge outdoor TV screen as Obama was elected President. Things change. We can make things change.

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