Colon(:) and Semicolon(;)
If truth be told, the majority -- mostly white people -- cannot be counted on to know right from wrong on issues involving race.

Consider these examples of the majority's serious wrongheadedness: For more than two centuries, most Americans supported slavery; most Americans believed that black people and women did not deserve the right to vote; before massive TV coverage of white racists brutalizing civil rights workers during the 1960s, most Americans opposed civil rights legislation; most Americans believed that Asians should be in internment camps during World War II; most Americans today believe that we have the right to execute fellow humans.

While contemporary politicians may trust majority opinion, George Washington, our first president, and other founders of the world's greatest democracy did not. They knew only too well, for example, that the overwhelming majority of Europeans supported their monarchies, even when these governments were despotic.



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  • wrongheaded: adj. »ý°¢ÀÌ À߸øµÈ, n. wrongheadedness
  • deserve: ¢¦ÇÒ °¡Ä¡°¡ ÀÖ´Ù
  • coverage: º¸µµ, Àû¿ë¹üÀ§
  • brutalize: ÀÜÀÎÇÑ ÁþÀ» ÇÏ´Ù
  • civil rights: ¹Î±Ç
  • legislation: ¹ý·üÁ¦Á¤, ÀÔ¹ý
  • internment camp: Æ÷·Î¼ö¿ë¼Ò
  • contemporary: Çö´ëÀÇ, ÃÖ½ÅÀÇ
  • founder:â¼³ÀÚ, â°ÇÇÑ »ç¶÷
  • only too: ¾ÆÁÖ, ¿ÏÀüÈ÷(very, completely)
  • overwhelming: ¾ÐµµÀûÀÎ
  • monarchy: ±ºÁÖÁ¤Ä¡, ±ºÁÖ±¹
  • despotic: adj. µ¶Àç(ÀüÁ¦)ÀûÀÎ


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