I was disappointed, but not surprised, at Missouri’s distinction of leading the nation in black-on-black crime. I lived in Kansas City during the beginning days of school desegregation, and I realized early on that its decades of de facto segregation were going to lead to years of racial problems of one kind or another. The same is probably true of St. Louis.
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Monday, February 18, 2008 | 10:00 a.m. CST;
updated 8:18 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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