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Bill Clinton: [Inaudible]--were abducted. And there was this little town in South Carolina where there apparently had been maybe some…

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[Inaudible]--were abducted. And there was this little town in South Carolina where there apparently had been maybe some division or something in the past, but they were all coming together. You saw those gripping pictures of the schoolchildren praying. You saw blacks and whites going out together to look for the kids. People really were trying to do their best to do a good and noble thing. And then they found out that the mother had done it. And unlike previous cases--we've had some other cases, horrible cases, where parents kill their children. But this was--it stood in such stark contrast to those people praying, working, desperately trying to find those children. I think they had a sense of betrayal, of outrage, of bewilderment, of pain. And I think the experience that the people in the community felt riveted all across our country, indeed, across the world. I think every parent was just sickened by it. Racial Issues Mr. King. The fact that--and remember the case in Boston with the call to 911--that she drew the picture of a black man tells us what about racism in America?
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