"White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like……" — Michael Eric Dyson
"White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder."
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63 Quotes by Michael Eric Dyson
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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