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Bob Ray Sanders: I've seen this anger before in America

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On the eve of the vote in the House of Representatives to pass health care reform, those voices yelled racial and anti-gay epithets at members of Congress, with one demonstrator spitting on a black congressman.

It looked eerily like a scene from 1957 Little Rock or 1963 Birmingham, but these incidents occurred on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
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