Aurin Squire
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Aurin Squire
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It was one thing to know data, but it’s quite another thing to know how to interpret it. That requires critical thinking or experts to explain statistics, two elements lacking on social media.
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Black Americans did not grieve Trump's 2016 win in the same way as white liberals.
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Cops are at the crux of this cultural war of neoliberalism vs. fascism. They are sworn to uphold the constitution and laws of freedom while also operating legal torture chambers and killing people of color. And they are able to hold these two completely contradictory values at the same time, as long as they don't speak or think about it.
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The Republican Party of the 1980s had an appeal, at first.
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The full scope and dimensions of black voices matter, not just the ones performing blackness for white media.