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These two arguments were unanswered, and indeed unanswerable: the one that the extraordinary powers of the Bureau threatened the civil rights of all citizens; and the other that the government must have power to do what manifestly must be done, and that present abandonment of the freedmen meant their practical reenslavement.
W. E. B. Du Bois • The Souls of Black Folk
1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has
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It seemed to Pierce, though, that the same technology that risked creating another generation of psychically damaged black children could also be used as a radical therapeutic intervention. As he told his colleagues within the Black Psychiatrists of America in 1970: “Many of you know that for years I have been convinced that our ultimate enemies
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And the hive mind is available to all of them via Chat GPT.
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Joshua Kaplanpropublica.org
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But only fools and Americans think they can outrun the past.
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
There has been for them little protection from the dominant controllers of society and even less protection
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
On television I caught glimpses of the heroes of the Black Power movement. Muhammad Ali, Stokley Carmichael and Yuri Kochiyama were all preaching about the condition of black people, and Angela Davis was still regarded as the most dangerous person in the USA.