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zentrum

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26. You're

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #10)

Sat Nov 29, 2014, 08:50 PM

Nov 2014

....missing his point. Of course he understands. It's that media and the power structure uses incendiary language to talk about the same crime, depending on race. And what's the point of the sarcasm?

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