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If you don't have access to other races, it's easy to dehumanize them.

Bishop Edwin C. Bass, a clergyman in Ferguson, Mo., who has urged peace during the protests of an unarmed black teenager's fatal shooting by a police officer. He said St. Louis' segregated neighborhoods made it easy for races not to mix.

Bishop Edwin C. Bass, a clergyman in Ferguson, Mo., who has urged peace during the protests of an unarmed black teenager's fatal shooting by a police officer. He said St. Louis' segregated neighborhoods made it easy for races not to mix.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.