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Elliot's avatar

Merry Christmas Elliott! I hope you have a good and safe Christmas!

-Elliot

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Martha Ture's avatar

Elliott, I used to live and work among working class rednecks. For all their good qualities, their eager delight in violence drove me away permanently. It was cultural. If you want to be a man you have to fight. Same is true of black gang kids, per the autobiographical books of many - James Baldwin's Fire Next Time, Ta-Nahesi Coates' Between The World And Me.

Speaking of books. . .

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