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One that you might like, and that is incredibly urgent right now, is from Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation, by Keenga Yamada Taylor.

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offers important context for understanding the necessity of the emerging movement for Black liberation.

From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation, by Kiena Yamada Taylor.

Out now from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

It is clear that we in the United States do indeed live in an exceptional

nation. Our government is exceptionally bad at managing this pandemic in terms of both public health

and the economy. So bad that it looks like Americans will, along with Russians and Brazilians,

be barred from entry to Europe due to our infection rates remaining out of control. A entirely revealing an ironic turn for this country,

given that throughout its history, it has been a world leader in crafting racist immigration

restrictions and then border militarization.

Meanwhile, our government remains exceptionally good at killing and locking people up,

particularly poor people, particularly poor black people. These grotesqueries are all

related to another fundamental American exceptionalism.

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