people are actually calling this for what it is<\/a>. \u00a0No, it\u2019s not a national outcry, but it\u2019s something.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s good. \u00a0We don\u2019t need apologies. \u00a0We don\u2019t need excuses. \u00a0Just let justice take its course, condemn the deplorable attack, and start looking past the convenient divides to deeper problems in our society. \u00a0Who knows? \u00a0We might start solving a few.<\/p>\n
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Don Lemon explains.\u00a0\u00a0Not worth debating. \u00a0Unless, of course, Mr. Lemon believes racism or torture in other cases might be\u00a0the result of bad training at home. In other news, the credibility of Hate Crimes was maintained by filing hate crime charges against the four individuals\u00a0who kidnapped and tortured a white man because, well, he was white. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,30,27],"tags":[3,85],"class_list":["post-8083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-death","category-current-events","category-social-observations","tag-current-events","tag-social-observations"],"yoast_head":"\n
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