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Breanna Edwards
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News Editor at The Root, animation nerd, soca junkie, yogi

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Officials say the degree honors Martin’s life-long dream of becoming a pilot

What a beautiful honor. I can’t believe it has been 5 years. To think of the life Trayvon had ahead of him. I’m very touched to know that his family is receiving the degree that was stolen from him.

It was bad enough when a black man was shot while trying to legally buy a gun at a Walmart.

Even if I buy you innocently thought it was a gun (which I don’t but let’s pretend) nobody runs scared when white people are just exercising their second amendment right to carry a gun. Yet any black person holding a gun is treated like an active shooter. It’s absurd, racist, sickening, and one of the most blatant

A student at the university reportedly called campus safety to tell them about a black man holding what seemed to be a gun.

I will. Don’t spit fire and act like an ass if you can’t fucking take it.

“I was fine with bad things happening to other people but I didn’t think they’d happen to ME!”

She is this sheep.

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So how many officers are embedded in the KKK and the alt right/white nationalist groups like it? B/c those are actual terrorist organizations that have committed crimes and taken lives. If only they put this much energy into stopping white men like Dylann Roof and his ilk who post endlessly on the Internet about their

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“I had thought we had been past the plight of racism. Apparently we hadn’t.” Errr, the 2016 election might have been a good indicator that we aren’t remotely anywhere near past the plight of racism.

I guess hate crime is too strong of a word?