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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Was the cruelty the point?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Are We Making Race Two Front and Center?

i'm not a political strategist, and no one should ever come to me for advice on how to win elections or anything like that. But this idea, you knowlike senitor daniel patgeck winahan said thet eletin racism would be served by some benign neglect. And i want to give an example of how that philosophy actually manifests in the rual world. So when john roberts was a young lawyer at the justice department, he was arguing against that the voting rights act, at the time, was up for reauthorization. It's a violation of state sovereignty that can't be justified by the state of raceism in America.

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