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“There have been so many indisputable instances of outright criminality — what we feel in our bones to be criminal; what if anyone else did, we would rule as criminal. I think a critical mass of nonblack people have come to see the enforcers of the state in a different kind of way.” – Ta [...]

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Hi! This weekend Anne and I went back to our alma mater, Wake Forest, to help her sister Mary move out of her dorm. I hadn’t thought too much about going back over the last few years, but turns out I really missed Wake. It was fun exploring all the pieces of our old lives, [...]