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As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.
T. D. Jakes
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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Thomas Dexter Jakes
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