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throwaway1959

I am not sure how is this makes it better. The author making racist statements and Guardian printing them. Would it be Ok to say "a black man owns more ..."? No, it wouldn't be Ok to say that. And yes, there are a lot of very rich African American men (in Sports, Entertainment for example). Racism is racism, and it is wrong, no matter who prints is or says it.

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its pretty ugly whichever way you look at it.

The Guardian has a compulsion to feed the pearl clutching middle class centre left with stories of exotic oppression.

Sadly, the story here is one of a Billionaire appropriating an even more unequal - and dangerous - portion of the world's resources.

The slaughter of Native American people and the reparations due to them is a vital but nevertheless separate cause.

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