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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
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But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
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Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
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Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
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When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a…
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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what…
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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
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All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that…
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Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against…
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Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based…
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I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story…
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Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
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