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George Clooney: Racism Is America’s Great Original Sin

Paul Bois
George Clooney: Racism Is America’s Great Original Sin
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Actor George Clooney has been included among PEOPLE magazine’s “People of the Year” list alongside Dr. Anthony Fauci and actress Regina King — and according to him, America has much to atone for due to its past history of racism, though he has not given up believing in the country’s fighting spirit.

“I grew up in a generation where all the people that mattered to us were being murdered, from Martin Luther King to Bobby and Jack Kennedy to Malcolm X and Medgar Evers, and all these things that counted were going on, with women’s rights, civil rights, the anti-Vietnam [war protests],” Clooney told the magazine.

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