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You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Failures
Seen
Society
American
Katrina

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