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Columbus is growing by leaps and bounds. So why is it 700 years behind in racial equality?
By Danae King
The Columbus Dispatch
When it comes to racial parity, Columbus lags behind other cities — by hundreds of years.
A study shows that it will take Black Columbus residents 700 years to get opportunities to improve their wealth and quality of life equal to their white neighbors.
On average, it will take Black Americans 300 years to catch up, said Duwain Pinder, a partner at the Columbus office of consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which did the research released earlier this year.
So why the 400-year difference for Columbus? Pinder said centuries of discrimination have caused huge…
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