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"The Republican Party
and its acolytes in the news media are trying to demonize the protest movement that has sprung up in response to the all-too-common police
killings of unarmed African-Americans across the country. The intent of
the campaign — evident in comments by politicians like Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
— is to cast the phrase “Black Lives Matter” as an inflammatory or even
hateful anti-white expression that has no legitimate place in a civil
rights campaign."
"The Republican Party
and its acolytes in the news media are trying to demonize the protest movement that has sprung up in response to the all-too-common police
killings of unarmed African-Americans across the country. The intent of
the campaign — evident in comments by politicians like Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
— is to cast the phrase “Black Lives Matter” as an inflammatory or even
hateful anti-white expression that has no legitimate place in a civil
rights campaign."
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