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Reflections on Race - 'The perception of a Black man sometimes is twisted'

Hempstead's Mark Bottoms says he doesn't want to feel misunderstood. He says sometimes he's just as afraid of what someone might do or say to him as he is what others fear he may do or say to them.

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