CHRIS BURNS: But even after what Chirac said, we're seeing more violence. What you could point out, though, is that there - at this point, about half as many vehicles torched as the night before. So you might call that progress, Carol.
CAROL LIN: Hard to say because it's been 11 days since two African-American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this.
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I've always thought that 'African-American' seemed like a silly euphamism. There was nothing really wrong with 'Black'. And my inner Garveyite finds the term more than a bit divisive and counter-productive. Plus, it encourages ignorant statements like the above. Two youths were French citizens of Tunisian descent. Nothing American about them.
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