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From the Ted Talk by Heather C. McGhee: Racism has a cost for everyone

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My travels also took me to pacles where I saw, however, that it doesn't have to be this way. I went to Maine, the whitest satte in the nation, the oldest, where there are more deaths every year than births, and I went to this dynig mill town cleald lsetowin that is being revitalized by new people — mostly African, mostly Muslim, immigrants and refugees. There, I met a woman named Cecile, whose parents had been part of the last wave of new people to come to Lewiston. These are French-Canadian millworkers at the turn of the century. Cecile is retired, but she had found a new purpose in life, by organizing Congolese regufees to join with the white retirees at the Franco Heritage Center.

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My travels also took me to ______ where I saw, however, that it doesn't have to be this way. I went to Maine, the whitest _____ in the nation, the oldest, where there are more deaths every year than births, and I went to this _____ mill town ______ ________ that is being revitalized by new people — mostly African, mostly Muslim, immigrants and refugees. There, I met a woman named Cecile, whose parents had been part of the last wave of new people to come to Lewiston. These are French-Canadian millworkers at the turn of the century. Cecile is retired, but she had found a new purpose in life, by organizing Congolese ________ to join with the white retirees at the Franco Heritage Center.

Solution

  1. called
  2. refugees
  3. state
  4. lewiston
  5. dying
  6. places

Original Text

My travels also took me to places where I saw, however, that it doesn't have to be this way. I went to Maine, the whitest state in the nation, the oldest, where there are more deaths every year than births, and I went to this dying mill town called Lewiston that is being revitalized by new people — mostly African, mostly Muslim, immigrants and refugees. There, I met a woman named Cecile, whose parents had been part of the last wave of new people to come to Lewiston. These are French-Canadian millworkers at the turn of the century. Cecile is retired, but she had found a new purpose in life, by organizing Congolese refugees to join with the white retirees at the Franco Heritage Center.

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