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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
- called
- refugees
- state
- lewiston
- dying
- 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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