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News Journal - October 29, 2010

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Anger at presidents isn't anything new, but the tone has changed. Jan Ting of the Beasley School of Law tells his first-year students that they’re getting a glimpse of the animosity the country experienced after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. "Now, we don't just disagree with people," said Ting. "It's that they're bad people." Ting believes that this election cycle also has shown that it's wishful thinking to believe the country has become a "a post-racial society."