On the recordJanuary 29, 2021
one of the reasons I don`t like this unity argument is because I`ve been black all my 80 years and in the south, the South was unified against me. There was Southern unity for segregation.
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Jim Clyburn expresses his concerns about the concept of unity in the context of historical racial segregation.
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