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"At a given point in Monday's public meeting of the Shelby County Commission, District 2 commissioner Henri Brooks saw fit to remind her colleagues that an African American is no longer, as was the case in the early days of the Republic, officially reckoned as three-fifths of a person and that the Civil War was over \"and y'all lost.\" It was somewhat uncertain as to who the \"y'all\" was, inasmuch as several of the whites in attendance, both on the commission itself and in the audience, were either Northern-born themselves or descended from bona fide Yankees, and several of the blacks in attendance, both on the commission and in the audience, had opposed Brooks on her two major initiatives of the day &amp;mdash; the first one an effort to squelch grant proposals relating to the county's Community Services division."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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