One of the most hopeful signs I came across was inside Johnny White's sports bar.

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Ms. LAURIE BUFORD (New Orleans Native): I'm at Johnny White's Sports Bar.

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One reason a hate crime has been ruled out, Champion said, is that the teens in the car that morning could not see whether Johnny Butts was black or white.

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The latest Disney version has a shirtless Johnny Depp adorned with feathers, a face painted white with black stripes, and a stuffed crow on his head.

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In the case of Johnny Butts, the prosecuting district attorney, John Champion, is white.

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Devon White, Garry Maddox, Torii Hunter, Marquis Grissom and Johnny Damon were all similar: more or less average hitters who brought real value in the field and on the bases.

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Just a year before Johnny Butts was killed in north Mississippi, another African-American man was killed by a group of white teens about 160 miles south in Jackson, Mississippi.

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