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Black voters go to the polls in the 2008 presidential election. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Elijah Anderson, Guardian UK
Anderson writes: "Almost every black person in America has experienced the sting of disrespect on the basis of being black. A large but undetermined number of black people feel acutely disrespected in their everyday lives, discrimination they see as both subtle and explicit."
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