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Clarence Page: Why I wince when I hear the words ‘white privilege’

Asking President Donald Trump how he feels about “white privilege” is sort of like asking a young fish how it feels about water.

As the late author David Foster Wallace tells the fable in an unusually famous commencement address, the young fish doesn’t know what water is. He’s way too close to the subject.

That’s how President Trump sounded when renowned journalist Bob Woodward, son of an Illinois lawyer and judge, asked

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