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July 09, 2003
Racial Progress?
Posted by jbholston at 03:44 AM

Bush decries slavery on his quick trip to Africa;

At the House of Slaves, Bush peered through the Door of No Return, between the slave cells and the Atlantic. Here the bodies of dead slaves were tossed, attracting sharks that also devoured those who tried to escape as they were loaded onto ships,

while a white supremacist shoots up an ethics class filled with black co-workers at a Lockheed plant in Mississippi.

Williams came to work two weeks ago carrying a white Ku Klux Klan hood, said Terri Collier, an area resident whose 47-year-old husband, Alvin, was shot three times but was expected to survive. Williams was sent home after that incident, Terri Collier said. Alvin Collier told his wife that Williams began his shooting spree in a trailer on the Lockheed Martin plant site, where four black employees were taking an ethics class Tuesday morning.

" 'Oh, good, you're all together,' " Williams said upon entering the trailer, according to Alvin Collier.


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