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Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor The comparisons were immediate. If these were Black people, they would have been arrested. If these were Black people, they would have been beaten and shot. If these were Black people, they would have been killed. But they weren’t Black people, they were white. If you haven’t figured […]

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