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Fri Apr 25 14:04:31 UTC 2014

Yahoo! News doesn't capitalize the word in its headline:

"Jon Stewart takes a victory lap around Cliven Bundy's 'negro studies'
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On CNN, child-free Carol Costello notes that Bundy's "use of the word
'Negro'"  was by itself "mind-blowing" and "reprehensible."

(Bundy said today he thought that people of all colors should be able to
sit anywhere on the bus they wanted.)

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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