Posted by Tarus on Thursday, September 16, 2010,
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Did you know that blacks were NOT the first to reside in what's commonly referred to as ...Ghettos?
Originally, the word was used to refer to the poor living spaces set aside for Jews throughout western nations, especially in Russia. It is widely believed that the word itself is a derivative of a word in Venetian vernacular, ghetor or ghet, which means slag - an unwanted byproduct of smelting ore for valuable minerals; supposedly, there was a foundary off one of the islands of Venice in which...
