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Old 08-30-2015, 04:13 PM   #1
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Originally Posted by sexobon View Post
Yebbut, why now?
I suppose it's as the man says in the last paragraphs...

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My sincere hope is that by lifting my voice, I will encourage others to do the same.
The statistics tell us that there are many of us who have similar testimonies about
what our nation’s heavy-handed approach to criminal justice is doing to
communities of color and society at large.

Right now we find ourselves at a critical moment in history.
We stand at the precipice of passing the most sweeping
bipartisan criminal-justice reform legislation in a generation.
But it won’t happen if this is seen as a problem for “them,”
as opposed to all of us. Democracy is what got us into this mess,
but I’m confident that democracy can help alleviate it and
bring us markedly closer to our country’s highest ideals in the process.
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