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Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
Economist
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San Francisco County
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Julianne Marie Malveaux
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