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Dahleen Glanton: Omarosa may have earned back her black card

C'mon African-Americans, have a heart. Omarosa Manigault Newman desperately wants her black card back. I think we ought to consider giving it to her.

Look, I know we can't take this exclusive membership card awarded to every black person at birth for granted. It takes a lot to get it taken away, and it's only fitting that black people have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it back.

Maybe Omarosa deserves a second chance, just like we gave Sammy Davis Jr.

Davis lost his black card when he endorsed Richard Nixon's re-election in 1972 and hugged him

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