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Knowledge is Power!
“Welcome to the black-brown thing. That’s what my African-American friends and I called it back in college. It’s shorthand for the uneasy relationship between the nation’s largest minority and the group that formerly held the title.
In college, Latinos and African-Americans got along well. Ours was a small and prestigious school in the Northeast where neither group was in large supply.
As I walked through campus, if I passed a black classmate — even one I didn’t know — he’d acknowledge me with a smile and a nod. And I’d do the same.”
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