In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it. (Henry Louis Gates)

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

Henry Louis Gates

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