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a history that Americans must understand to be able to connect the dots between the past and the present. Understanding the history of race relations helps people appreciate the origin of the current debate in the United States about racial prejudice , human rights, incarceration, inequality, white privilege, white supremacy , police misconduct, and other issues. Unless young people study the American Civil War and the Confederacy, we will never understand why Dylan Roof shot and killed nine church members in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. Without a proper understanding of

Many people have come to understand that the concept of “race” is meaningless. It falsely implies that there are significant genetic differences between populations.

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Contemporary Issues: Race Relations