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A slip of the tongue on the Clark County School Board

I must be the only person in the entire state who can’t understand why people were so unhappy about a member of the Clark County School Board referring to “colored students.” What again does NAACP stand for? I believe it stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

I’m not a racist. I’m just confused.

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