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Dahleen Glanton: March for Our Lives a start in closing the gap between the privileged and the underprivileged

CHICAGO - The crowd at the March for Our Lives in Chicago was overwhelmingly white.

But the message was not. The privileged kids would not allow it.

It could have been a day devoted entirely to remembering the 17 people slaughtered with a semi-automatic rifle at a high school in Parkland, Fla., last month. But the privileged kids in Chicago knew that would not have been enough.

Saturday could have been a day to rally the nation around the single issue of school

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