A Racial Rift That Isn’t Black and White
Tagged: borderThe two pastors find that the fault lines that separate their communities sometimes test their friendship and challenge their efforts to bring blacks and Hispanics closer together.
“In this immigrant boomtown in Atkinson County, about 45 miles north of the Florida border, the ministers have forged a rare friendship that transcends the deep divide between blacks and Hispanics here.
For centuries, the South has been defined by the color line and the struggle for accommodation between blacks and whites. But the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Hispanic immigrants over the past decade is quietly changing the dynamics of race relations in many Southern towns.”
Source: More information in English / Mas informacíon en Ingles
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October 3rd, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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