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Another young, black man shot in the back by police. The cycle of unending black and brown death pushes me to tears. The young man wasn’t innocent. There was a warrant for his arrest. But he was trying to make himself a better person. A father of two working on his GRE who couldn’t escape the life he once led. Unending black and brown death.
A disenfranchised young man half a world away and two generations prior to this shooting sits in the back of a packed room of disenfranchised men. He watches as someone takes a podium and begins to talk about how the country was great once, how it could be great again. It resonates with him. Over the next few months he begins to speak the same way. It turns out he has a way with words, a charisma that few can match. He begins a movement which overtakes the country. What is wrong with the country? How can we make the country great again? Eliminate the Jews.
A young man longs for the American dream. He starts a business. He fails multiple times but he keeps moving forward. He has a brashness about him that is charming in one moment and revolting in the next. He marries and divorces. He files bankruptcies. He finds his niche in reality television and a hairstyle that looks like the worst hair piece ever made. He runs for President. At first it seems like a joke. It seems that at some point his “movement” will blow over. It doesn’t.
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