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I had a professor who always talked about "the necessity of existence." Basically, some things should be created just so that thing will exist in the world.
So here's a thread to RT anytime some1 responds to #BlackLivesMatter with "but black on black crime" like this yahoo. https://t.co/jfOtq9CtsW
Let's tell the story of Kilmer Armado Abrego-Garcia, the "Maryland Father" (read: likely member of MS-13) who was removed to El Salvador, and who The Atlantic (and apparently the entire political left) are demanding be returned to the United States. https://t.co/m3TRAFFGs0
Welcome to Black America. That’s our history.
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And so what does that kill? One of the things it kills is, I think, the element of the most ancient storytelling technique, which is something you did not know before. surprise as a concept has been so undervalued to the point where i get to be again to borrow a metaphor from earlier feeling like uh a one-eyed man in the land of the blind sometimes
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He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.