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None of us can be held responsible for the wrongs of our ancestors. But if today we choose not to do the right and necessary thing, that burden we own.

— Nikole Hannah-Jones The 1619 Project (2019)

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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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