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Because Of Slavery?

by David Kurtz
01.19.11 | 1:30 pm

Erstwhile presidential candidate and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), on Obama’s support for abortion rights: “I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, ‘We’re going to decide who are people and who are not people.'”

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