This is an UPDATED Version with the story clarified and what is going on now. Finally, this week we were brought to our attention that racial tensions are still highly present and will even affect the American lives first hand. You notice racism every where you go but on a different level. There are certain parts of town that blacks live, whites, and colored (it is not used as a derogatory term here, but rather a mix race), live and they don’t tend to mix too much. However, that does not mean I couldn’t live in a black neighborhood. In addition it is not whites working the manual labor jobs it is blacks and colored. In a sense it reminded me of Mexicans in Colorado, or illegal immigrants and the types of jobs they typically have.
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