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    Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
-The first part of healing the metaphorical boil is admitting it exists, is very much real, very much ugly and has roots well below the surface of the skin. From what I gather from this conversation, you're seeing a benign freckle where 8bit sees, through first hand experience a big nasty malignant boil.

Also, I live in NC and I often travel to remote parts of SC for work. That video of the guy in Alabama isn't a "one off" unusual experience. It's very much real, prevalent and an everyday experience for many people because of the amount of pigment in their skin.

Edit: Based on your profile, which says, "hide, hide from the dissenting opinions." I have to assume that you purposefully try and take the counter-argument. Which, is essentially the definition of trolling, right? Because if you find that you are always holding the opposite opinion of those around you, you can pretty much come to one of three conclusions:

1. I'm in the wrong place

2. Everyone else is crazy

3. I'm trolling