‘First of all (black people love to say that)…’

why is CNN commissioning this study?

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In her famous essay How It Feels to Be Colored Me she wrote, “Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past.”

Instead of lamenting that slavery was the source of all of blacks’ troubles, she proclaimed, “slavery is the price I paid for civilization.”