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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.

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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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