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I have dedicated my life’s work to excavating the modern legacy of transatlantic slavery

— Nikole Hannah-Jones UN speech (2022)

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This has been a fundamental problem with news institutions, now and in the past. They attempt to cover racism and inequality without understanding it themselves.

According to head of Chicago police union, assaulting police like this was fine because these folks were frustrated.

The hundred-year period of racial apartheid and racial terrorism known as Jim Crow.

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If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.

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Do those concerns about cancel culture and McCarthyism and censorship only apply to the left or do they apply to the POTUS threatening to investigate schools for teaching American journalism? Silence is deafening here.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

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