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Sports world is incubator for larger race discussions to come

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 24, 2007

The topic today is race. I announce that up front for the folks who cringe whenever that word is mentioned. Feel free to cyberflee. Click the escape hatch now and we'll carry on without you. A surprisingly large segment of the population gets terribly nervous talking about race. That segment would rather believe that race, race relations, racial dynamics and racial viewpoints are no longer a pressing issue in our country. That we "are past all that," that we need to "move on," that we should ...

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