U.S. Diplomat Says Racists Attacked Him
From Times Wire Reports
An American diplomat said he was severely beaten Saturday by a group of skinheads while in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, because he is black.
Robert Simmons serves at the U.S. Agency for International Development in Uzbekistan.
“I was attacked because I am African American. They did not touch my friends who were there with me but were not black,” Simmons said in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.
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