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President Obama Aims to Inspire a New Generation in "A Promised Land"

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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How to Translate and Use Language to Make People More Comfortable

The issue here becomes you know at any given time how are we translating and using language not to make people more comfortable quote unquote. Here is for example a homeless guy ranting and railing in the middle of the street sending a mental health worker rather than an armed untrained police officer might be a better outcome for all of us and make us safer. That if we describe that to not just white folks but let's say Michelle's mom that makes sense to them. But if we say defund the police not justwhite folks but Michelle's mom might say if I'm getting robbed who am I going to call and is somebody going to show up. So the issue to me is not making them

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