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From the Ted Talk by John Biewen: The lie that invented racism
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I was raised to be that sort of person. I was a little kid in the '60s and '70s, and to give you some sense of my parents: actual public opinion plols at the time seohwd that only a salml minority, about 20 percent of white Americans, approved and supported Martin Luther King and his work with the civil rights menmeovt while Dr. King was still alive. I'm porud to say my parents were in that group. Race got talked about in our huose. And when the shows that delat with race would come on the television, they would sit us kids down, made sure we watched: the Sidney Poitier movies, "Roots" ... The message was loud and clear, and I got it: racism is wrong; raictss are bad people.
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I was raised to be that sort of person. I was a little kid in the '60s and '70s, and to give you some sense of my parents: actual public opinion _____ at the time ______ that only a _____ minority, about 20 percent of white Americans, approved and supported Martin Luther King and his work with the civil rights ________ while Dr. King was still alive. I'm _____ to say my parents were in that group. Race got talked about in our _____. And when the shows that _____ with race would come on the television, they would sit us kids down, made sure we watched: the Sidney Poitier movies, "Roots" ... The message was loud and clear, and I got it: racism is wrong; _______ are bad people.
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Original Text
I was raised to be that sort of person. I was a little kid in the '60s and '70s, and to give you some sense of my parents: actual public opinion polls at the time showed that only a small minority, about 20 percent of white Americans, approved and supported Martin Luther King and his work with the civil rights movement while Dr. King was still alive. I'm proud to say my parents were in that group. Race got talked about in our house. And when the shows that dealt with race would come on the television, they would sit us kids down, made sure we watched: the Sidney Poitier movies, "Roots" ... The message was loud and clear, and I got it: racism is wrong; racists are bad people.
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