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Racial discrimination impacts people in a way where you can put someone down and get in a violence situation if you say the “n” word because of the impact it had in history and for a long time it's going to be like that until we learn that it's not that bad and it's just a word. It's not the only word that's disrespectful but there's so much it's hard to know half of them and people are coming up with new words to racially discriminate someone over something they can't control and if we tried to slow it down then it would take a lot of time. One example from the book is when mama bought the house knowing that there is no other race but white people in the neighborhood. When the representer of the neighborhood came, linder came out his way

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