Here are examples of what passes these days for communication across the color line: In Tamarac, Fla., a 20-year-old black cook was questioned by police for 45 minutes after officials at the bank where he wanted to open an account reported that he planned to rob it. In New York City a rumor that a soft drink sold in poor neighborhoods had been secretly manufactured by the Ku Klux Klan to make blacks sterile worked so well that sales plummeted 70%. And a University of Chicago survey of racial attitudes found that 3 out of 4 whites believe black and Hispanic...
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