Trump belatedly says what Americans need to hear about racism
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, Aug. 15:
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President Donald Trump did not deliver a modern Gettysburg Address on Monday. He didn't change the national conversation about race. Rather, he repudiated the white supremacy movement in a brief televised statement about the violence in Charlottesville, Va.
The sentences that mattered: "Racism is evil," the president said from the White House. "And
