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Ghosts of Jim Crow Koni Benson Umemoto recalls pieces of hisA provocative, and timely, solution for ridding America of the traces of Jim Crow policies to create a truly post racial landscape When America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a "post racial" society. Was this the dawning of a new era, in which America, a nation nearly severed in half by slavery, and whose racial fault lines are arguably among its most enduring traits, would at