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Setting The Record Straight: Statistics and Racism
A COLUMN PUBLISHED IN OUR JUNE 4 edition, written by our ‘Good News’ reporter, Hannah Hegedus, included some inaccurate statistics that escaped our attention. We caught a little hell for them, too.
Among the stats was at least one that was simply incorrect—that Black Americans make up 40 percent of the population. They do not.
The mistake was mine—not Hannah’s. I f...