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  • In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

    "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator". Ethiopian Review, February 1994.
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