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None of us have lived through slavery, and those who did missed
something still more vile.  We are born into a human condition,
quite apart from our choice or approval.  For the first time in
history, a superpower has given up its slaves.  Only a generation
removed, we will have pain.  But if the primary reaction to this
fact, of both white and black, is not happiness, then what hope
can we have for our future?