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I rally hate how in this country they treat rich people way better then poor people. Like they say and rich person can commit numerous crimes but as long as they got money they walk around free. But if your poor and have done 0 crimes you will get falsely accused and put behind bars all because you don't have as much money as other people

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People of color really go through a lot. Hearing bombs in a church, seeing people/ friends you grew up with dead is devastating. The fact they had to be armed because they were afraid of being attacked says a lot about america and the people who lived in america doing all this damage to these communities.

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The black panthers were said to be a threat to democracy according to J. edgar hoover. They were just fighting for their freedom, The one things "the best country" Promised "All americans" The fact that they went so extreme that they shot up Fred Hamptons house because he wanted to bring people together not seperate them like white supremacist do.

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Its is very upsetting and unsettling the dark history of America that they try so so so hard to hide from people and hope no one brings it up. They hung these people and everybody watch these people die, They left them there like they were some type of trophy and its disgusting how these people are no remorse.

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Its horrible how people of color were AND STILL ARE painted like monsters because of a stereotype white people made towards these innocent people because of their features that they cant control lie their skin color, their hair, ect. They were a threat to whites and whites were always painted as the heroes especially the KKK

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America isn't what it claims it is. America has this huge repetition that its a great country. Although the united states does have its pros compared to other countries this freedom and justice only applies to whites. Sadly the justice system lets others down.

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I find it appalling yet unsurprising how our nations leaders are so easily able to get away with such major crimes. They are voted into office and then they have as much power as they want to ruin the lives of people of color. They're only impeached when it involves white people. And all of the things they do, the crimes they commit, are swept under the rug like they never happened. It doesn't matter how many times they admit their actions, they know they will never be persecuted. Racism in this country will never die as long as it lives within our leaders.

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The system is so messed up, they won't help people solely based on skin color. Skin color doesn't show who someone is, it's just a part of someone. The fact that race matters that much, shows a lot about the usa and the ways.

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The prison industry is I believe the most richest federal system. Everything is based on how much money they get.  And its crazy because that goes towards most politicians. Social media websites that we use such as facebook, instagram, twitter, etc.. Are all ust pocketing money from the cries of the people. Such as how the Immigration centers also get so much money, and the prisons that they put the immigrants in have horrible cleanliness and horrible conditions. Everything in this country revolves around money and corruption. But the most important and powerful is one is power. Everyone wants to have power because they can write bills and laws in there favor.

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POC were put into prison just because private prison owners could benefit from it even if no actual crimes were committed? They extended the sentences too. Crazy how the opps do anything to keep you down.

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This gave an incentive for white supremacists to put Black people in jail. As time went on, and as more and more prisons became privatized, those labeled criminals eventually became commodities, because the people who were suddenly imprisoned were no longer considered as people. They were now property of the state. The brutalization of Black peoples’ bodies was a fundamental aspect of America’s police and prison systems.

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Wow, the fact that these higher ups can completely destroy these people lives, and be helped up by these corporations... the fact that we need to have rallies and protest because of how racist and disgusting the system is, and how everything works against black people and even other minorities, there are people being killed out here, children being attacked and killed... and the government still don't do anything to clean up what they have caused.

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It shouldn't be called a justice system when they fail to help people of color. The justice system shouldn't fail someone because of their color. The justice system shouldn't have "justice" in it because clearly they don't do their job fairly. Honestly every racist person needs to get humbled. All colors are beautiful we shouldn't choose a favorite because we are all human being and we are all ONE in some way.

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When considering the way the United States government tries to exemplify the ways in which it’s democratic, we primarily look at the act of voting. American “democracy” is contingent on the fact that citizens are able to vote on our leaders and representatives. However, the prison system makes it impossible for incarcerated individuals to be fully initiated as citizens. Those who have been branded as criminals are stripped of their right to vote, and aren’t allowed to have a say in who represents them within the United States government

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I find it messed up that some of the terrorist attacks on black people were organized by the government itself.

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1. There is no sugarcoating the immorality of the government at that time anymore because they were even saying that judges should disregard the circumstances in a crime and to just assign mandatory sentencing, although it was hard for the judges to do because their whole job is to provide justice. Their interest was just to pack in more black prisoners although they were not guilty.

2. I am proud of how far African Americans have come because I can not believe a time where MLK was not seen as a hero like he is seen now, but was seen as a “menace to society” (like the video said). It took a lot of work from the whole African American community to progress and to be seen as more than criminals to white Americans.

3. I remember learning about the George Zimmerman case in I think a social studies class, and it shocks me how the “self defense/stand your ground” rule in Texas was not thought out very well, though someone could very easily kill a random person and call it self defense, especially when it’s a white person against a black person. The court is likely to believe a white person than the family of the black person they shot.

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It's been over a century since the 13th amendment was established yet nothing has changed. The way of slavery changed but it is still there. POC are still treated differently compared to white people and jail is like slavery, just changed a bit. POC are overrepresented in jails. That says a lot.

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Abgail's thoughts and wonder of 06/02/22. 

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Abgail's thoughts and wonder of 06/02/22. 

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1. I'm a bit confused on the judges are required to sentence certain people to jail for life. Like if a person has 1 record of crime in the past and the judge sees no fault in a life sentence, it doesn't matter what the judge thinks? Life without parole?!
2. How can people who are asking for racial equality be so dangerous that the military had to be involved and that they had to shoot the leader dead with more bullets needed than necessary. The "truth" that the government has contaminated so many brains with was an obvious trick to kill anyone that stood against their so "amazing just constitution".
3. I don't know why this is now coming to my head but if the government didn't use the strategy of lying about how "ferocious" blacks are, they literal threaten your life by killing activist to say "don't mess with us or your next". And this is just all funny because the new government that was established after they won the revolutionary war; the goal was to not be a monarch. The new government was to be ruled by the people but obviously not all groups of people. The hypocrisy that the colonies did not like being controlled by the england empire but yet they do the same.

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It is total a discrimination against black people, it is not possible to feel fear just be seeing a black person,it is unassailable.

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yo the justice system is messed up for real, its just really messed up how you can just kill someone and just have a whole law back you up.

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It's so sad how some people are afraid of a color, like what? how stupid is that? They were afraid of the innocent, they were supporting the real monsters. Throwing the innocent in jail, and letting criminals roam around continuing committing crimes.

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Injustice toward a black person not only affects that person and their family, but their residential community and the black community as a whole. I feel like it's a really powerful thing for one thing to effect an entire group of people and that's what led society to start to change for the better.

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The justice system severely disadvantages blacks and that's not fair because they get charged/punished more severe than other races.

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Innocent little kids, mothers, fathers, family were killed due to a bomb inside a church where its ment to be safe. They reason they were killed is because they were black. Based on what Angela Davis expressed, the explostion really impacted the whole word. It shows how hard headed and disgusting people can be.

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It's very unfair and sad how black people suffered and gone through before and how they feared about what white people would to them,especially police officers would do to them. The experiences they had traumatize them They were targeted so much because of their skin color. They lived with fear and no freedom.

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Its so crazy how racist this country is. Say for example if a African American kid who is selling drugs because he needs it to feed his family and to not go into poverty they go into prison with there sentence being more than 15 years. White a white kid could be selling drugs who lives in a very wealthy neighborhood they blame it on there mental health. They honestly just get a slap on the wrist, they get community service and its the same thing there doing.

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Its sad that racism can never ever go away because the injustice system will never stop favoring whites over blacks because that is the way the system was built.

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The fact that there black advocates, speaking up for justice and the FBI was falsely accusing people, like again it is crazy how people are getting years to life for speaking out in the injustice, like they're literally MAKING up plots and putting down stories because it was so convenient.  Having a lawyer was a 50/50 chance because even then sometimes these lawyer we're sabotaging their clients.

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It shocked me that the police shot up the house with the chairman's pregnant wife who was in bed next to him because they were scared of him.

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I think they fear about black people power when they stand up for themselves or for justice, because what happened to Martin Luther King Jr,Malcolm X, they were killed by defending themselves and their race.

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It's sad that it's not shocking that the government would get rid of anyone they view as a threat in a heartbeat. The government killed everyone who was trying to change the way of life, no matter if the targets had kids.

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i hate the fact that people were and some still are afraid of people because of their skin color. They arent afraid of them being black but afraid of how much power they have as a community and use them being black as a target

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1. It is so disgusting how skin color will determine how you should be treated. Why does color even matter? If anything, most criminals are white, why do they get away with crime? This is just straight up cruel.

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The FBI falsely represents black people as dangerous to the public. smh

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its scary the barriers they would pass such as shooting up somebody's house while someone in there was pregnant.

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they really think that a group that just wants justice and equality is a danger to the United states and i find that to be crazy.

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The increase of the numbers are very surprising because there are a lot of people

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It's weird that a person can get 15 years in jail for passing drugs but a white person could kill someone and pass it as mental health issues or something along the lines of that. A woman who happened to be a person of color,was trafficking cocaine, which was the only thing she did and got 15 years. On the other hand white woman, who was charged with hitting and killing 3 pedestrians, only got 36 months of probation. It is sad that this is based on racism when race shouldn't matter and everyone should be treated the same.

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I also find it so weird that these white higher ups try to victimize themselves, and try to act like them killing families and leaving children without parents was gonna be justified because of their parents background, how they blame black leaders and use that against these black people.

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It's really baffling how a person who committed one singular crime got a life sentence but a person who commits a murder, literal murder, gets 10-20 years or less with the chance of parole.

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3rd felony or strike is when they go to prison for the rest of their lives and I think how wrong that colored people reasons to get that felony is not even a bad crime like trespassing cocaine, drug related,or minor things that aren't considered as criminal. It tells us how bad the country is.

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The increase in numbers is unreal considering most of the people serving time are people of color and do lowly crimes.

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i find it insane they are always trying to find ways to benefit one race over the other.

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I find it weird that someone that only had ONE crime which was trafficking cocaine( not justifying it) was sentenced to life in prison even though it was her first crime, so there was no backup evidence to show she was a threat to public safety, but they still gave her a bunch of time without parole, but if the roles were reversed with a white woman I bet they would get parole.

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The lady had her first crime and was sent to prison for life and that just shows how disappointing the country and the system is. The thing is that it happens so often.

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Its so crazy how people who are supposed to represent us and be the voices for us are the main ones who are targeting minorities. Its very disappointing but its not new, this isnt the land of the free if everyone is trapped under this corrupt system.

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im disappointed and believe the system should focus in an attempt to help maintain unity instead of producing division

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When the prison system begins to find new ideas to detain someone without being in an institution this is when modern slavery will take it's form. The problem will no longer be whether or not a person committed a crime that is worth being incarcerated for but rather it will be how long will a person stand being constantly monitored and tracked.

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In relation, im dissapointed and believe the system should invest/focus on rehabilitation in an attempt to help maintain unity instead of producing division and suffer upon individuals.

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The prison industry is probably the richest federal system and it still keeps its detainees in horrible conditions. The utter hypocrisy that this system has is astronomical.

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Its bizarre how these laws are predestined for the advantage of cruel people. They are not protecting anyone nor helping maintain peace. The Stand Your Ground law allowed Trayvon Martin's murderer take his life away and not receive retribution for it which is not fair.

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The fact that people were required to keep prisons filled even when nobody was committing crimes is disgusting.

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I can't stand these gun laws that are supposed to "protect" you and others but really only cause more harm than good. Guns kill thousands of people each year so there should be no reason other people can purchase them.

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I agree with Stefanny H because the same trauma that happen to her happen to other black people too and that's sad they have to go through that.

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Is very sad that what she remembers about her childhood is remembering gunshots and remembering about the little girls that died and remembering that her dad carried a gun around because of the fear they lived in.

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It is sad how at a young age black people have to deal with the trauma and consistent hate that they get.

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The biggest threat to our country is mass incarceration and wrongful crime accusations. The fact that people in power believe that it is just a way to gain extra revenue instead of serving for the best interest in the country. America shouldn't be seen as a great country, there is no way why countries should rely on Americas help when it incriminates is own people. Corrupt leaders of our country don't know how to properly handle public safety, justice, equality or diplomacy.

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I agree with Renae, White people pick and choose what and who we learn about for the purpose of seeing History through the persepective they want us to see it through.

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I never knew any of this happened before the school never taught us about this.

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It's also sad that this is the first time I'm learning about some of these people because history doesn't teach you about the actual important members or the first leaders to do something. History is kinda whitewashed, you don't hear about many of the POC leaders.

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With the Fred Hampton situation it really showed to what extent the higher ups will go to in order for Black people not to obtain an ounce of power. Its truly disgusting to see White supremacy in action like this.

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Him saying "You're defending the people who kill the lives you say matter" is a really bad defense. It feels like a cop out answer. It's ignoring the actual problem and literally victim blaming.

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I think what Ms. and Mrs. Clinton did good in apologizing for their actions but if they did no action then what is the point of apologizing because your actions talk more than your words.

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I agree roselyn money should be spent on education not a holding place that is only used for labor , with better education there can be things that a person will like to come to school for 

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I agree roselyn money should be spent on education not a holding place that is only used for labor , with better education there can be things that a person will like to come to school for 

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To Bill Clinton and to the unjust Justice system, black people are just a demographic. There's nothing amazing about doubling the amount of people in the prison system. Putting people in prison for petty crimes is not helping our country against the criminal system. For a black person they can serve life for getting caught with drugs or they will be wrongly accused of heinous crimes committed by someone else.

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We lose most of our population every year because we want to kill each other, get put in jail, die from suicide just because we hate ourselves for being in this world this GREAT AMERICA that we call home but we never try to help each other or are to scared of getting into trouble so we all stay quiet in this biased world and stay at war for each other instead of staying together but instead we kill each other everyday the real evil is our society.

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He can't be talking about other children killing other children when what he made other people believe makes it possible for police officers to shoot down a kid no questions asked.

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The fact that they use more money to build more prisons instead of focusing on education is infuriating because better education could potentially keep them away from being criminals. If they're funded the right way.

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It's so egotistical of these men to accuse us and hurt us because it's the "law"  but do they ever dig closer into a case or situation but no they don't we just have 1, 2 , 3 strikes and were done we never get to see the day of light again but but they truly try to prove guilty or not guilty just because they can or its easier or because of the color that we are

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The laws they pass are not only racist but are really counterproductive. The 3 strikes rule ended up having more prisoners released before their time was up so they con convict other people? The point was to lower crime rates.

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Black people, Black people, Black people...that is all White people have in their minds when something wrong happens, even when one of their own is at fault.

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I agree with Roselyn because it is mostly mentioned and focused on Black people doing crimes but nobody focuses on white people committing the same crimes but getting a lower punishment.

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I agree with Jaretzy because its disgusting  to see how presidential candidates use black people to win their election and accuse them of things they haven't done.

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I agree with Ashai that we vote for these people to be our leaders and protect us and try to make America a better place but instead of making us feel safe they hurt us and do no action

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It's not shocking that when you think criminal, you think black people, because that's what the world makes you think, that only they can be criminals but white people can also be criminals. It's sickening that we've been brainwashed to think that way, that we heard it for so long that it's engraved into our minds.

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It is disgusting how presidential candidates use their power to speak badly on Black people and accuse them of things that they never committed.

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It's very indecisive that throughout history the political office has been abused and exploited to discriminate black people.

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The statistics regarding interracial rape showed that there were more white men who were raping women than that of black men raping women. This information was highly disregarded because presidents pushed for wrong information. When you have someone powerful hiding such an immoral an corrupt side, anything they say should be seen as dishonest not wise or profounding.

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I agree with Roselyn, and Ashai, it worrys me that grown adults vote these men in office who are racist, it just makes you wonder what policies/laws they pass that could be very hurtful to minorities on purpose.

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The lyrics from the song are hidden messages of the truth, when you listen carefully it's talking about how they are locked up to be used, they are being "stocked up"

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The lyrics from the song are hidden messages of the truth, when you listen carefully it's talking about how they are locked up to be used, they are being "stocked up"

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Is so sad that when every crime happens, a Black american is always suspected

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It's disgusting that white people/presidential candidates portray black people like that when they should really be afraid of themselves and what they will do to make sure the public believe what they say.

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We vote for these men as our leaders but they are the very thing that divides us and hurt us blacks from whites and make it us seem like monsters that we are evil but we really aren't our presidents are just as hurtful and biased as the rest.

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I think every president must have at least a little bit of racism in them, and it is depressing because that is reality

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Everyone has something they don't want to hear which makes them choose another side for what they want to hear. 

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Everyone has something they don't want to hear which makes them choose another side for what they want to hear. 

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I never knew this about President Bush, but its kinda epected as most presidents are probably racist. :/

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They really made black americans scared of what they could do over fake news created to get rid of black americans to use them. 

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They really made black americans scared of what they could do over fake news created to get rid of black americans to use them. 