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“Male privilege; if anything, women are the privileged ones.”

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New York is really two cities. There’s the city of people who are educated, sophisticated, often young and single. They live in luxury (though they are always complaining). Side by side with them there’s a second city made up of the poor, the elderly, most blacks and Hispanics, and the middle class who haven’t fled to the Sun Belt.

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Before the Rap Game Tupac Shakur was born in the East Harlem area of Manhattan, New York into a family heavily involved in the Black Panther Party.

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Is there a subject that is sure to make the average American more uncomfortable than race?

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As we have apparently reached the official end of the Great Recession, corporate profits are high, and the stock market is booming but the majority of Americans are not seeing results. Now why is that?

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“What if he had a gun?” “What if he shot you?”

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Men are gods if they have multiple partners, but women? Women become sluts.

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It used to be that a “racist” was simply someone who hated others for their skin color. By that definition, I am not, nor have I ever been, a racist.

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The unemployment rate is slightly better but that doesn’t mean you’re doing any better. In fact, you’re likely doing worse.

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Raising the minimum wage would give our economy much more bang for the buck than we get from the financial industry’s yearly windfalls.