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“Without this context — evaded even by some liberals … and actively suppressed by the right — the Buffalo shooter’s notion, rendered euphemistically in mainstream Republican discourse, that Black people are undeserving takers, becomes a kind of common sense.”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about the shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and about the white-supremacist beliefs of the shooter, who was motivated by a hatred of Black people.
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“The Biden regime has ramped up deportations via Trump-era ‘Title 42’ …. During his four-year term, Trump used Title 42 to remove 500,000 asylum seekers. In under a year, Biden has deported almost 700,000 migrants”
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“The Confederate flag still flies prominently in some areas [of Williamson County, TN]. When the white father of Black children recently complained about this at a school-board meeting, a man in the audience sneered, ‘We’re in the South!’”
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“A 13-year-old girl was suspended from school last week after she expressed concern for Palestinian children …. Following a heated incident after the class in which dozens of other students cursed the girl and threw things at her, she was suspended for three days.”