“If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?”

— David Horowitz

[David, Horowitz, http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1999/08/16/naacp/, Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do, Salon.com, August 16, 1999, 2007-02-17]
1990s

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