By Rami Shapiro — 2019
After the terrorist attack in El Paso, Rabbi Rami is asked about the Tree of Life Synagogue murders.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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