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The segregation that haunted Ms. Gibson are not going to go away. The white supremacists are not going to care about how good or talented anyone but whites are just because. You can lead a horse to water, but you can not make it drink. Mr. Douglas in his autobiography tells of similar experiences. It is too ingrained in our American life to be changed easily.
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