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African Americans Face Discrimination
This exercise should still be done in classrooms, prison system, or any other place. No one really understands discrimination until they had experienced it. In the documentary, one of the white women asserts that all people face some kind of discrimination. Another woman challenges her, claiming that whites can’t really know what it’s like to face discrimination every minute of every day. I think that the woman that challenged her is right. African Americans have faced discrimination since many years and it still continues
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