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“Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.”

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There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

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Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.

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The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

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