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Article: Thoughts on racism diverge along S.C. road
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2009
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. - The Bolen and Elmore homes, three blocks
apart in opposite directions off Columbia Road in this small city,
could not seem more alike. Both are simple brick ranch-style houses
occupied by retired couples, the men former police officers who
spend hours a day in dark dens where cigarette smoke wafts beneath
the whirl of ceiling fans.
Inside the hush of these rooms, however, their differences become
clear.
Columbia Road is a long and narrow country highway that serves as
the border between the congressional districts of Representative Joe
Wilson, a white Republican who heckled President Obama during a
speech, and Representative James E. Clyburn, the top-ranking black ...