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Why the silence of moderate conservatives is dangerous for race relations

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imageLetter from a Birmingham Jail - 1963 Jason C Tillmann, CC BY-SA

The past two years of racial turmoil have removed any and all doubt about the continuing significance of race in the United States.

Both whites and blacks have exhibited increasingly negative views on race relations since 2011. A...

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