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10 July 2019/ Racism in America

Discovering prejudice at a young age

Discovering prejudice at a young age
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Farzaneh & Jack Guillebeaux

Farzaneh & Jack Guillebeaux

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Deciding it’s good to be black

Jack Guillebeaux: I thought I would try out hating white folk. And that felt like a lot of work.

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Born in Tehran, Born in North Carolina
Baha'is in Iran

Born in Tehran, Born in North Carolina

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: My father’s brothers hired someone to kill him when he became a Baha’i.

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