Let’s rub out lingering racism in U.S.

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Posted on: August 25th, 2006
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“I could have been born as an African-American. My father could have been from Japan. My mother could have been born in Germany. I could have lived all my life up to now in an orphanage in Sudan. My childhood could have been in a home in Pakistan.

But of the roughly 200 countries in which I could have been born, I was born in America, to a Venezuelan father and a Central American mother.”

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