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How Can We Change Racial Perceptions?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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Career criminal-turned-minister John Turnipseed said the image of African American men as violent troublemakers has to change so when incidents like Ferguson occur, the public will fight for them.
The Minneapolis minister told The Christian Post that, "One of the things that has to happen is that the perception of young black men has to change."

Turnipseed, a former pimp, drug dealer, and gang leader who has been imprisoned three times, acknowledges, "As a black male I have as much to do with that as anyone else."

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/drug-dealer-pimp-turned-preacher-we-cant-wait-for-racism-to-go-away-to-change-perception-of-black-men-131233/

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