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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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How Did the Circumstances of Your Birth Shape You?

Roland Martin was born and raised in the most carceral state that there is in this union. He recalls being inundated with messages, but not having the language to push back against them as a kid. The reason certain communities in new orleans look the way t a they do isn't because of anybody in those communities,. It is very clearly and directly about what has been done to those communities generation after generation. And so even though the world attemptsto make people seem as if it is their fault that they live in the conditions that they do, it's far from it. I think we can underestimate how many young people aren't given an adequate framework for understanding our society. This

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