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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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Blood Continue Flesh Law Man Men Place Technicalities Value
His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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Ben Okri Century Destiny Fighting Grief Pose Question Serious Work
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Boldly Drowned Hope Rebirth Shadow Splendid
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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Finger Flame Ink Knowledge Lexicon Star
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Measured Nelson People Profound Question Unique
And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.
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Being Compose Creature Human Poetic Self
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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Assailant Black Brother Fallen Maimed Million Son Tear
Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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Decontextualization Guerrilla Healing Life Love Major Meaning Michael Jackson
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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Christmas Felt Healing Heart Shine Started Time
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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Gliding House Passover Poet Trembling Wind
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Condem Fate Humanity Later Often Save Sooner Voting
How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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Achieve Being Equanimity Hard Human Justice
When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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Authentic Grace Healing Religious Spiritual Usurped
What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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Brother Disease Emotional General Ignorance Struggle
The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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Blood Intricate Longer Machinery Period Prayer
Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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Angel Eager Extinguished Flame Kissing Liquid Love

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

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