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11/23/2004:

"One blood: Racism in Europe and Jamaica"

LAST WEEK, at a friendly football match between England and Spain in Madrid, the black English players were taunted by Spanish fans. Not to be outdone, on Sunday, Trinidadian Dwight Yorke, playing for English club Birmingham City, was subjected to racial abuse by fans from of all clubs, Blackburn Rovers. These incidents remind the world that racism is alive and that Blacks live in a hostile world.

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