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color riot, how women of color don't get the solidarity from others that they should,

how they almost single handedly won the Alabama Senate race, and stick around to the end

for the lessons the Democratic Party needs to learn from the Doug Jones victory. Our clips

today come from newsbeat in the thick ring of fire, the young Turks, revolutionary left

radio, the zero hour and Sunday civics.

We don't call it a riot. We call it an uprising because it was a collective response to

oppression. One of the things that people need to keep in mind and one of the reason we

call it a rebellion is because this was happening all over the country. Many people don't know

that between 1960 and 1972 there were more than 1,000 recorded urban civil disturbances

or riots in the United States. In naming it that, you bring yourself closer to the reality

that brought it into being. In calling it a rebellion, see if it's a riot, people think

a riot's like after the basketball game, college, after the soccer game, Europe, you know,

they think of some trivial reason.

Understandable excitement, Red Sox fans waited 18 years for a trip back to the World Series.

Some fans took the celebration too far, causing history and damaging property. I also condemn

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