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When Skin Color Becomes a Passport

When Skin Color Becomes a Passport

When the refugees are blonde-haired and blue-eyed, the reception is very, very different

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Mar 02, 2022
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Source: CBS News

Like virtually every person in the free world, I’m pulling for the citizens of Ukraine. Their plight is the real-life embodiment of David versus Goliath — good versus evil. I find myself pulling for them, despite their ridiculously long odds. 

What is especially compelling to observe is the evolution of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian …

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