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  1. “In this country men can be born and live well and die without ever having to feel much of what makes their ease possible, just because so much is buried under all of this black and white mess that in their ignorance some folks accept it as a natural condition.
    1. …in reply to @AaronGustafson
      “But then again, maybe they just feel that the whole earth would blow up if even a handful of folks got to digging into it.” — Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth It's depressing how true this passage still rings, nearly 70 years after he wrote it. Let freedom ring! #Juneteenth