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Prejudices produce inequalities and hatred. They become disadvantages for minorities and in the long run create lost opportunities for a civilization to progress. For example, the US South in the antebellum years held slaves and even freed Blacks as unequals in society. They therefore had no opportunities to advance themselves or society. A clear example is Frederick Douglas. An escaped slave who became a "man of letters" and a scholar- historian. Certainly other Blacks in the US at that time could also be intellectual leaders, however, because of prejudice however, their potential remained hidden by their skin color.

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