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Last week's murder of nine black people in their place of sanctuary has confronted America once again with the specter of racism, past and present. One victim, the minister lying in state in South

Carolina's state capital, will be eulogized Friday by the first black president.

Meantime, there are calls for a conversation among white Americans, including both parties' candidates

for the White House.

So what about the future?

Can the country move forward?

If it can't agree about the past?

Today's talking point, a heat wave during Ramadan has killed 800 people in Pakistan.

Can the government of that country survive?

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Hello again, Warman Alney, back with To the Point.

President Obama will be in Charleston on Friday to eulogize the late Reverend

Clementa Picney, gunned down in his church, of course, last week. Much attention has been

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