The Reverend Deborah Johnson is the senior pastor of Inner Light Ministries in Soquel, California.

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And Reverend Deborah Johnson joins us on the phone from her home near Santa Cruz.

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Reverend DEBORAH JOHNSON (Senior Pastor and Founder, Inner Light Ministries): It is extremely hard, and I'd like to do a friendly amendment to what we just heard about that the African-American community knew exactly what it was doing.

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