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Column: World would be a better place if every white had to live one day as a black

Abraham Lincoln didn’t make enough copies of the Emancipation Proclamation to go around.

Either that, or not enough of us bother to read past the headline.

I am white, which is not a color.

A black is a person of color, a white is not.

I do not know what it’s like to be black, although many white folks claim they do. If only a higher authority could make all whites — except babies, who are born color-blind and without rancor — black for a day.

Just one damn day.

As Nelson Mandela said: “People must learn to hate.