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  Friday  February 21  2003    12: 57 AM

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Whites Swim in Racial Preference

All you white boys and girls out there will benefit from reading this — no matter how racially sensitive you might think you are.

Ask a fish what water is and you'll get no answer. Even if fish were capable of speech, they would likely have no explanation for the element they swim in every minute of every day of their lives. Water simply is. Fish take it for granted.

So too with this thing we hear so much about, "racial preference." While many whites seem to think the notion originated with affirmative action programs, intended to expand opportunities for historically marginalized people of color, racial preference has actually had a long and very white history.
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