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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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March 23, 2014

You can read this quote by The Root’s senior staff writer, Jenée Desmond-Harris, in a column explaining why race is an invented political system, here.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

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