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" Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans. "

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" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "

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