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" Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. "
James Earl Jones
Once
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Race
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" The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. "
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