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...didn't do. There is logic to that thinking: if you didn't own slaves or enable others to own slaves, you aren't culpable. But the U.S. didn't do a very good job of converting its former slaves to full-fledged citizens. Slavery gave way to Jim Crow, lynchings, poll taxes, redlining and educational and job discrimination. Although illegal now, these tools perpetuated a racial hierarchy that affects every American today, no matter how subtly. Just compare any rates of achievement, poverty, imprisonment by race; blacks are nowhere closing to catching...
...including Missouri and Georgia are considering their own expressions of regret for slavery, and Rep. Stephen I. Cohen, a white Tennessean, just introduced a resolution for a national apology in the U.S. House that reads, in part, "African-Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow - long after both systems were formally abolished - through enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible, including the loss of human dignity and liberty, the frustration of careers and professional lives, and the long-term loss of income and opportunity...
...Though the days have passed when black people were legally considered three-fifths of a person, prejudice is far from absent in contemporary society. Though black people may not be enslaved or living under the suffocating pressure of Jim Crow, we are still gasping for air under the weight of the legacy of systematic injustice in this country. The gloomy economic state of many black communities across the country is one of the most indicative illustrations of this fact...
...wake up and smell the coffee, Howard, but I can't. Because 17 people are always in line in front of me, each ordering a grande two shots nonfat no whipped cream extra hot dolce cinnamon latte from the pike position, an egg florentine, a croissant, a Sheryl Crow CD and a half-pound of Guatemala Casi Cielo...
...Metallica and Linkin Park in various stages of readiness, but the project that's closest to his heart is a sixth and final album from his recordings with Johnny Cash. Settling onto his couch, Rubin plays a Cash version of Redemption Day, an overlooked song from a 1996 Sheryl Crow album. "Johnny found this," he says. "I'd never heard it, but it's perfect for him." Rubin was worried that he might have to tinker more than usual with some of the songs in the singer's absence, but after listening to the material again, he decided...