If we lose the White House, maybe we should try the city council in Athens, Greece.

If we lose the White House, maybe we should try the city council in Athens, Greece. Two years ago, Boston University alumna and Brooklyn native, Yvette Jarvis, became the first black American on the Athens City Council. A former pro basketball player in Greece, Jarvis told a reporter that she was welcomed there: The Greek people "had seen Roots. They were angry about white America treating blacks like that." (Good to know someone got the point.)

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