Michael Harriot
@michaelharriot
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Writer, board-certified wypipologist, last real Negus alive. BlackAF History/Drapetomaniax podcast/theGrio…At the SAME DAMN TIME. Never reneged; Never will.
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Ticketmaster be like: . Concert ticket: $40.Venue fee: 21.32.Access fee $18.32.Paperless transmission fee: $12.03.Fee Fee: $8.84.Fi Fo Fum: $3.43.Cuz We Can Fee: $2.01.Might as well fee: $1.89.WTF you gonna do nigga, not go? fee: $1.38.Another dollar won’t hurt nobody fee: $1.00.
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We gotta stop telling “both sides” to tone down the political rhetoric. Trump wasn’t attacked by a transgender member of MS-13 who snuck in w/the Mexican caravan to be radicalized by Black Lives Matter while majoring in CRT at Antifa University. It was just another random,
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A lot of Black people are starting to talk about immigrants the way white people talk about Black people. Don’t.
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So much of history has been whitewashed for the sake of making it palatable for white consumption that we are starting to perpetuate things that are not only misconceptions, but outright lies. A lot of what you're told about protests, MLK, etc. is wrong. A thread.
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If you’re shocked that a white lady from Texas would support a racist just because she used to have sex with a Black guy…. You have a lot to learn about America.
Patrick Mahomes’ mom decided to show the world her whole MAGA trash ass before MNF
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They’re right. I don’t know what’s in that vaccine. I also don’t know what’s in Hydroxychloroquine. Or Robotissin. Or tea. Or anointing oil. Or the blood of Jesus. Shit, I don’t know what’s in people’s thoughts and prayers. Also, I eat hot dogs.
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If any of “Meet the Grahams” is true, they gotta give Kendrick another Pulitzer for investigative reporting.
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At this rate, Trump’s gonna put Diddy in charge of the oil reserves.
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I don’t engage in ANY activity where oxygen is measured in time increments.
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Here’s a quietly wonderful thing I noticed:. If you talk to someone who was in choir or band at a majority Black HS, you’ll eventually discuss those annoying fundraisers for uniforms, instruments, etc. & a SURPRISING number will casually say:. “Oh, Dolly Parton paid for ours”.
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Don’t let up, y’all. So far, all they’ve done is give us a three day weekend and changed the syrup logo. Police haven’t stopped killing us.
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Guess they tried that in a small town.
Yo this is wild 😭. A group of white men attacked a black security guard after the security asked them to move their pontoon boat so the big Harriot can dock. They refused to & attacked the security guard. A group of black men seen & went defend him by beating the white men 💯🙌🏾
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Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk rummaged through millions of emails & Slack messages from pre-Musk Twitter & all they found was employees deliberating & consulting w/each other about how to fairly apply & enforce rules. But I get it. To a rich white man, that seems very oppressive.
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Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action. Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed. The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE.
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I googled their wives. We good, y’all.
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It was 80 degrees yesterday but when I went to bed, we were under a tornado warning. It just snowed. I’m sure nothing’s wrong.
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If they say “get on the ground”’and you get on the ground, say “I’m on the ground” and you STILL get tased and pepper sprayed. What else are you supposed to do but run? . So much for that whole “if he only he had complied” narrative.
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Ppl keep presenting the "slippery slope" argument that if we tear down Confederate statues, we'll tear down statues of everyone who's offensive & eventually there'll be no statues left. Well, here's a complex, nuanced counterargument to the prospect of a statue-less world:. "So?".
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Y’all wanna hear the TRUE story of Nikki Haley? . A thread
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I’m just here to remind y’all that when a cop killed Brian Hundley, a jury found that the cop lied. Brett Kavanaugh threw out the verdict. He didn’t cry.
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If I send you this…. You’re taking too long; I’ll see you when you get there.
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Thread: Nikki Haley said the Confederate Flag was a symbol of "service and sacrifice and heritage". I was born and raised in SC so I know a little about this. Here is the truth behind that statement:.
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She lives in Spokane. Until the 2000s, the city was 95% white. The Black population was less than 1% Black until 1990. And they STILL HAD SEGREGATED NEIGHBORHOODS!. She’s not lying. She literally didn’t see color.
When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s no one saw color. We were all just Americans. Why did that change?.
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I don’t understand the point of posting every time a police officer shows some humanity. It’s like me sharing a picture of the cashier of a grocery store and saying:. “This is Amy. She gave me the correct change, insisted that I have a nice day and didn’t try to murder me once!”.
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“I don’t know what kinda junk they’re putting in that vaccine,” said the man in front of me at the gas station, as he paid for his hot dog and Monster Energy drink.
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You wanna know what white privilege is?. Let's look at the credentials for the "Council to Reopen America". 1. Mark Meadows: Not only is Mark Meadows not a doctor, but his official gov't bio also says he only holds a bachelor's degree. That is a lie.
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Elon is what Joffrey Lannister would’ve been like if he reached adulthood.
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Wait. Did Roger Stone just say “I don’t feel like arguing with this negro. ”?. Man. 2020 is the wildest!
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7 years ago, I wrote a small piece about a man who was falsely accused of a crime. A few days later, I got an anonymous telling me to look up the woman they called “the evilest white woman on earth.”. What happened next is the absolute wildest story you’ll ever hear . A thread.
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Slavery, segregation, voting rights, gerrymandering and abortion all have one thing in common:. “States rights.”. Since the first draft of the constitution, “Leave it up to the states” has been code for “Leave it up to the racists.”.
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This is Whitekanda, an area was created by a race war, white fear, the prospect of an all-Black state, stealing land from indigenous people & one of the greatest real estate scams of all time. It is also the least racist place in America. A thread.
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Imagine how lit Juneteenth will be when slavery is actually outlawed.
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Imagine if we treated black people's right to vote like we treated white people's right to bear arms.
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Thread: Today I learned the interesting story of Abaco, the island in the Bahamas hit hardest by hurricane Dorian.
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Thread: 50 years ago, on Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago cops killed 21-year-old Black Panther, Fred Hampton. Hampton's death wasn't just another police murder. Even more than MLK or Malcolm X, Hampton's murder might be the most important black assassination in US history. Here's why:.
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Here is a gift to white people who insist they know what Martin Luther King Jr. would have said. A thread.
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I don’t care what kind of rumors y’all spread about Lauren Boebert. In my heart, she’ll ALWAYS be the high school dropout, multiple arrestee who married the guy who pulled his dick out at the state fair.
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According to exit polls, Abrams had MORE support from Black men than Dems had nationwide. In fact, if every single Black male Kemp voter had voted for Abrams instead, she still would’ve lost. Turns out, the “Black male voter problem” was a lie. It was white voters. It ALWAYS is
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Turns out, we were the “shithole country” this whole time.
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Jussie Smollett has 24 hours to respond.
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You wanna know why the Ahmaud Arbery story is so disturbing for a lot of us? . Because many black people can recall a specific incident where we could have met the same fate. Here are 3 of mine:.
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Remember when the Dow crashed and Obama said “I got this,” then H1N1 hit and ppl panicked but Obama said “didn’t I just say it got this?” then Ebola hit & O said “I told y’all mothefuckers I got this,” then stocks soared & everyone got free health care?. Anyway (sigh).Good times.
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To be fair, the only reason Biles won is because she consistently does stuff that no one else in the entire history of the sport has been able do.
Russia’s National Gymnastics coach wants rules changed after Simone Biles wins the World Championships for the 6th time. She said Simone “had no great performance, only difficulty.”
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Greg Abbott has armed guards who don’t let people get close, daily testing for anyone he comes into contact with, a whole team disinfecting the Governors mansion and a medical staff on standby. And he STILL got that shit. I’m sure those unmasked Texas schoolkids will be fine, tho.
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Every single person who has ever told me: “My mom whipped my ass, and I turned out fine”. Did NOT turn out fine.
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Y’all demonized black people for welfare for DECADES because it “costs too much.”. Then, the prospect arose that white people might not be able to pay rent, have a job or keep their business open & suddenly they found a WHOLE trillion dollars under the couch cushions. We see you.
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For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history. Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life. But it's not over. A thread.
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This is from one of the “open up the country” protests. You think I should wear this to the next Black Lives Matter rally? . I’m sure everything would be fine, right?
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Never forget that the local authorities who voted to paint “Black Lives Matter” on city streets could’ve just voted to reform their police departments.
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Stop saying you’re colorblind or you “don’t see color.” If the only way you can acknowledge someone’s humanity is to pretend their culture and history doesn’t exist, you need to examine yourself. Plus, I love being black. This shit’s dope AF when the cops aren’t around.
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They never intended for me to vote either, yet here we are.
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It’s crazy that Trump got impeached and it’s not gonna even make the top 10 most fucked up things about his presidency.
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Thread:. A lot of white people were shocked to learn about the bombing of Tulsa from HBO's "Watchmen" while most black people are familiar with the bombing of Black Wall Street. Even historians mention these events as isolated incidents.
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I think Anthony Fauci needs to slow down on fully opening up until I can figure out what size clothes I wear now.
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This might be the most controversial thing I ever tweeted but it’s time America faces the truth about a group of beloved historical figures, so here goes:. Blanche, Dorothy, Rose $ Sophia—The Golden Girls—were actually members of an organized crime syndicate. A thread:.
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Every Black person has been in this position, stuck with a well-meaning white person who SWORE they was spittin. Tell me about when it happened to you.
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Elizabeth Warren treated Mike Bloomberg like Mike Bloomberg treated black people.
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My grandmother says white men once broke in looking for my granddad for riding whites in his taxi. When they heard him praying 4 God to spare his kids, they left. I asked if she prayed, & she said:. “I couldn’t close my eyes. I had the pistol”. This tweet is about the filibuster.
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We’re watching the Republican Party split into two factions:. 1. White nationalists. 2. White nationalists with merch.
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I’m out. I’m good. Just hungry AF and want the City of Birmingham to know that officer C. Lancaster is DEFINITELY the next Derek Chauvin.
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Everyone's talking about impeachment and Clinton & Johnson as the only presidents ever impeached. But most people don't know WHY Johnson was impeached. So let me tell you the story about how not impeaching a racist president is a BIG reason why white supremacy lingers in America.
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That “anti-white” sentiment people keep talking about is just the erosion of what I call the “privilege of individuality.” . White people aren’t accustomed to being lumped together and being defined by the actions of others. Welcome to the club.
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Will Smith & Chris Rock just explained my position on microaggressions, white people saying the n-word and the entire concept of free speech. Everyone should have the absolute right to say whatever they want. But you can’t then restrict people’s reactions to what you said.
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If Tracy Chapman doesn’t have a 7-figure endorsement deal for shea butter by tomorrow, something’s wrong.
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“White people’s raids be different.”. - Breonna Taylor.
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Everyone believes Trump is using the USPS to sway the 2020 election. I don’t. I think this is about the 2016 election. Everything you're about to read has been publicly reported. I'm finna show you something. A thread:.
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That Joe Biden speech was strange. He didn’t cuss or say anything racist or blame stuff on other people. He didn’t even start a “locked him up!” chant. He was just up there speaking in complete, coherent sentences, not lying, acting like a goddamned adult. It’s just weird, yo.
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Ironically, banning the nonexistent teaching of Critical Race Theory made a lot of people want to learn about critical race theory.
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One time, probably in ‘00, my niece said she’d wanna be in the Olympics if she was a boy. “Girls are in the Olympics, too,” I said. “I know,” she replied. “But they gotta do everything in a bathing suit.”. I laughed my ass off. But I think about it every time I watch the Olympics.
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I’ll pass. But here’s a tip. You should probably use a VPN or some form of IP masking before you use a website’s content form to call the website owner a “nigger.” Theoretically someone could match the website cookies to the timestamp from your email delivery server & find
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I’m sure someone is probably fact-checking the debate… maybe… perhaps. But who’s gonna call out the dog whistles and white nonsense?. Lets Blackcheck the debate. A (live) thread:.
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Sorry to keep you waiting . A thread.
Trump was president for 4 years. Can anyone name anything that he did that was a threat to democracy?. I’ll wait.
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Anyone who thinks this was staged has never seen Chris Rock act.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but your family DOES NOT want you to “try something different” with the macaroni & cheese.
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The 25 white Republicans who wrote Alabama’s new anti-DEI bill may have inadvertently made college football (and all Division I NCAA sports) illegal. Roll Tide.
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Black journalists have repeatedly asked for race-inclusive data on coronavirus but people keep wondering why we want to inject race into a global pandemic. Here's a list of reasons:.
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If you want to understand how white Supremacy works,. 135 white people just rigged an election in broad daylight and they arrested a Black woman for knocking on the door to watch.
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This narrative that black people who want an accurate reflection of history are "angry and resentful" leaves us with one logical takeaway:. White people don't want to know history because they can't handle the truth. A thread.
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Sorry, guys. MLK wasn't about going to protest in a designated area and playing by the rules. His goal was to make people uncomfortable and cause chaos. He ADVOCATED breaking the law. It's almost like no one ever read the Letter from a Birmingham Jail where he said all of this:
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This is a good point. When anti-vaxxers cite their freedoms, constitutional rights, and–the whitest thing of all–the Founding Fathers to rail against vaccine mandates, do they know what they're talking about? . What if I told you this happens EXACTLY every 100 years?. A thread.
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One of the most popular misconceptions about black history is that over time, America has gradually become less racist and more tolerant. That is not true. Since y'all want a BHM thread, here's a thread about the evolution of racism in America.
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Remember: @laurenboebert is the least-educated member of the House & has been arrested more times than all the members of “The Squad”combined. More than ALL Black housemembers combined. But here is the best fun fact: . Lauren Boebert has been arrested more times than Tupac.
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We’re never going to fix this culture of white on white violence as long as uneducated teen moms from broken homes continue to disregard the rule of law.
BREAKING: Rep. Lauren Boebert is the subject of an active police investigation into an alleged physical altercation with her ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, at a restaurant in her district. A Boebert aide told The Daily Beast that no one was arrested.
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My neighbor has a Trump yard sign so I bought the biggest Black Lives Matter flag ever. This is how the race war starts.
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Hey, I’m pretty dumb and I’ve bothered all my lawyer friends too much this week, but. Can someone tell me exacly which “constitutional right” or exactly which “freedoms” white people think is being violated when they find out they can’t go in Walmart without a mask?.
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I don’t ever want to hear how progressive New York is again. Y’all could’ve had Maya Wiley and elected Sgt. Ruckus instead.
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Maybe they should focus on the so-called “real lawyers” who went 0-26 against my man Brian.
FACT: Kenyan authorities have arrested a fake lawyer, Brian Mwenda, who has falsely been presenting himself as an Advocate of the high court of Kenya. He argued 26 cases before High Court Judges, Magistrates, and Court of Appeal Judges. He won all the 26 cases before his arrest.
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Do y’all ever sit and think that Robert Mueller quit on us?.
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Joe Biden didn’t even ATTEMPT to save Florida from Hurricane Ian by drawing a new path with a Sharpie.
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Breaking News: . In a 5-4 decision, the conservative judges on the Supreme Court reject the final death row appeal of a Nazarene minister convicted of teaching Christian Race Theory. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issues blistering dissent, calling it a “crucifixion.”.
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Whitewashing the uncomfortable parts of the past doesn't just affect Black stories. For example, you can't fully appreciate how a peanut farmer from Plains, GA became a beloved president unless you know TRUE Black History. The unwhitewashed history of Jimmy Carter:. A thread.
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I managed to get a copy of Twitter's new policies. Here are the top ten biggest changes:. A thread.
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Tyre Nichols was killed by Black, college educated cops who received extra training & passed required psychological exams. How’s that “We-don’t need-to-defund-the-police-we-just-need-a-better-trained-more-educated-more-diverse-police-force” thing working out?.
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