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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>New York City’s Clown-Car Mayoral Race</strong> - More than thirty-five people are running for mayor. Does that bode well for the voters? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/new-york-citys-clown-car-mayoral-race">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Living in the Age of the White Mob</strong> - The attack on the Capitol shows that white riotous violence, brutally epitomized by the Tulsa Race Massacre, has never been relegated to history. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/living-in-the-age-of-the-white-mob">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Trial of Donald Trump Must Tell the Full Story of the Capitol Insurrection</strong> - We need a truth-finding mission rather than just a punitive undertaking, and it requires the support of President-elect Biden. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-trial-of-donald-trump-must-tell-the-full-story-of-the-capitol-insurrection">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden Faces More Aggressive Rivals and a Fraying World Order</strong> - Spymasters and generals worry that a “self-absorbed, gridlocked” America will be more vulnerable. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/biden-faces-more-aggressive-rivals-and-a-fraying-world-order">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Long Prologue to the Capitol Hill Riot</strong> - For months before the attack, observers across the country noted an escalation of far-right violence. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-long-prologue-to-the-capitol-hill-riot">link</a></p></li>
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Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Atlanta, Georgia in 1960. | AP
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The civil rights icon called for nonviolence but also warned about violent white mobs.
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This year, America commemorates Martin Luther King Jr.’s life amid a chaotic and shameful time for democracy. Less than two weeks ago, insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol after they were encouraged to “take back” the country by the sitting US president, holding fast to the false claim of election fraud.
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During moments of social and political turmoil, we often ask ourselves, what would King do?
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Unfortunately, the same forces that motivated the insurrectionists have tried their hardest to water down and whitewash King’s message and legacy. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/8/22221078/us-capitol-trump-riot-insurrection">White supremacist ideology motivated</a> the Capitol attack, and it’s this same power that has, in recent years, attempted to mischaracterize King’s words to fit their agenda.
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Vice President Mike Pence, for example, has likened Donald Trump to King in an effort to defend Trump’s border wall. “One of my favorite quotes from Dr. King was, ‘Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy,’” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/20/pence-links-trumps-push-border-wall-martin-luther-king-jr-legacy/">Pence said on <em>Face the Nation</em></a> ahead of MLK Day in 2019. “You think of how he changed America. He inspired us to change through the legislative process, to become a more perfect union.’”
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Other Trump administration officials have done the same over the last four years.
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On MLK Day last year, then-press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted, “Today we honor a great American who gave his life to right the wrong of racial inequality. Our country is better thanks to his inspiration and sacrifice,” failing to recognize that King was assassinated at the young age of 39. King did not give his life to white supremacy; white supremacy took it. Sanders’s statement also failed to acknowledge how King’s death set off riots across the country and effectively undermined the civil rights movement that King helped lead.
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He was assassinated Sarah <a href="https://t.co/SZ14TXQqGq">https://t.co/SZ14TXQqGq</a>
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— Mary Wilson (<span class="citation">@TheeMaryWilson</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheeMaryWilson/status/1087370735549595649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2019</a>
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Even the National Rifle Association seized on King’s legacy, twisting the circumstances of his death to fit their gun rights agenda. The organization <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1087358863014281216">tweeted</a> last year, “King applied for a concealed carry permit in a ‘may issue’ state and was denied. We will never stop fighting for every law-abiding citizen’s right to self-defense.” The organization suggested that had King not been denied a right to carry a weapon, he might have survived his assassination.<strong> </strong>They, too, neglected to mention that he was murdered by a white escaped felon who managed to access firearms despite restrictions.
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This year, those seeking to uphold the hate and bigotry that King vehemently fought against will surely try their hand at rewriting King’s story once again, calling for peace and unity in the wake of a riot that sought to overthrow democracy and roll back justice. And America has to see it for what it is: an attack that King would have unequivocally denounced.
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“King’s image and tactics are misappropriated and intentionally mischaracterized by those who would be squarely within his focus as an enemy to democratic ideals and the ideals of equality and fairness in this country,” Janai Nelson, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, told Vox. “What we should be remembering about King is that he was in no way, shape, or form a pacifist. He believed in nonviolence. He believed in a tradition of sustained protests. And he also believed in full truth and transparency about the evils of white supremacy.”
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King can’t solely be defined by pacifism or by confrontational action
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King’s radicalism, his decision to love Black people and fight for their humanity, is on full display in his “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” in which he addressed his fellow clergymen who deemed his strategies and tactics extreme. In the letter, he acknowledged the violence of white supremacy and why urgency was the only option.
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“Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters […] then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.”
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And his acknowledgment of white violence was not confined to extremists. He also noted the violence of white moderates who threatened the fight for civil liberties. According to King, they were the greatest threat to Black advancement.
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[...] I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens’ Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”
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As if foreshadowing how politicians would use his name to promote their own agendas, King called out moderates whose answers to racial tensions were not to engage with what justice would look like, but instead simply call for peace. He<strong> </strong>acknowledged that white moderates had no interest in seeing Black people gain freedoms and didn’t care to join in the fight for policies that would bring about real change.
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King’s legacy was also not just confined to justice on the basis of racial categorization; it includes his fight against capitalism (he <a href="https://www.vox.com/2017/1/16/14271074/poor-peoples-campaign-mlk-protest">was working on the Poor People’s Campaign in the months before he was assassinated</a> and was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike), the Vietnam War (he condemned the war in a <a href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/beyond-vietnam">1967 speech called “Beyond Vietnam”</a>), and limited citizenship for the oppressed (during his tour of Europe in 1964 on his way to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, King celebrated social-democratic governments).
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King told his wife in a <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-uncompromising-anti-capitalism-of-martin-luther-king-jr_b_4629609">letter</a> in 1952, “I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic … [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive … but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”
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America has also attempted to elevate King’s “I Have a Dream” speech as the key address that defined him, the address in which King supposedly advocated for seeing character over color. While King did indeed say that people should be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin, he never claimed that seeing race itself was the problem. In the same address, he was clear about how the construct of race played out for Black Americans:
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“But one hundred years later [after the Emancipation Proclamation] the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination; one hundred years later the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity; one hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.”
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King would have turned 91 this year, a year that has already seen efforts to undo the principles he espoused. In a year when insurrectionists want to reaffirm white supremacy, it’s important to see King’s legacy for what it truly was: complex. He called for nonviolence, but he also demanded unrest until there was no injustice anywhere.
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“We must honor MLK by honoring him,” author and historian Carol Anderson told Vox. “We honor him by not hijacking his words and twisting them to fit a white supremacist agenda.”
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According to Anderson, American leaders often recite how we should be a country that judges people by the content of their character, but their pleas aren’t genuine. “We have policies that in fact don’t care about character but go after the color of people’s skin,” she said. “So until we have a system that recognizes that, don’t spout the words of Martin Luther King to advance or to provide a fig leaf to cover the white supremacist agenda.”
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<figcaption>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (center) speaks during a news conference to announce “the beginning of a massive assault on segregation” in St. Augustine, Florida on June 10, 1964. </figcaption></code></pre>
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It’s going to require some work to truly live up to the vision that King had for the world, Anderson said. That involves knowing our real history, whites having real conversations with other whites, and dismantling the kinds of reflexive responses America has to white supremacy.
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For Nelson, honoring King’s legacy means outright demanding accountability for white supremacy.
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“To allow January 6 to occur without any consequences is to set us back and undo the work and the sacrifice of Martin Luther King Jr. and those that he stood up for. It would be one of the deepest assaults against his legacy,” Nelson told Vox. “And we will not sit idly by while this entrenched minority of radical domestic terrorists and extremists attempt to undo that incredibly important work.”
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As for what King would have said in this moment — in witnessing a president supporting white supremacists and trying to overturn an election — his words have always been with us. In his last book, <em>Where Do We Go From Here</em>, King wrote: “White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change of the status quo.”
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“I had to figure out the language to describe myself”: 6 mixed-race people on shifting how they identify.
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<em>This is part one of Vox First Person’s exploration of multiracial identity in America.</em>
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In 1993, the cover of Time bore a digitally rendered face, a supposed “mix of several races” that created a lightly tinted brown-skinned woman. “The New Face of America,” the headline proclaimed, heralded a future where interracial marriages held the promise of a raceless society of beige-colored people.
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Almost 30 years later, the United States is getting ready to inaugurate its first female vice president, who is of Black and South Asian descent; the nation has already sworn in its first multiracial and Black president, Barack Obama. By 2013, 10 percent of all babies had parents who were different races from each other, and the number is only <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://pewrsr.ch/1FJ4H3t&text=Pew%20Research%20estimates%20that%206.9%25%20of%20the%20U.S.%20adult%20population%20could%20be%20considered%20%23multiracial">growing</a>: In a 2015 Pew study, nearly half of all multiracial Americans were under 18 years old.
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Demographically at least, Time’s cover story seems to have gotten it right. But inherent to their vision was a kind of multiracial utopia free of racial strife. This is a popular modern understanding of mixed-race identity. But multiracial people have long been targets of fear and confusion, from suspicions of mixed people <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/onedrop.html">“passing” as white</a> under the Jim Crow system to accusations of not embracing one’s “race” enough — something <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/8/14/21366307/kamala-harris-black-south-asian-indian-identity">Kamala Harris experienced on multiple sides</a> this past election. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103117306674">Research</a> has shown that, even today, monoracial people experience mixed people as more “cognitively demanding” than fellow monoracial people.
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As the mixed population grows in size, it will likely continue to serve as projections for people to sort through America’s complex race relations. But what about the experiences of those who are actually multiracial? <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963721414558115">Studies</a> illustrate a group of people who struggle with questions of identity and where to fit in, often feeling external pressures to “choose” a side. <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1007%2Fs10964-014-0163-2&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Ffirst-person%2F21734156%2Fmixed-race-biracial-multiracial" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">There’s evidence</a> that mixed-race people have higher rates of mental health issues and <a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/003335490612100211">substance abuse</a>, too.
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As Black Lives Matter protests swept the country in 2020, the issue of race came to the forefront of the national conversation. Everywhere, Americans engaged in deep discussions around the experience of Black and other non-white people in our country, including how race impacts the daily lives of all Americans in unequal ways.
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Last year, Vox asked people of mixed descent to tell us how they felt about race and if the language about their identities had shifted over time. Among the 70 responses submitted, we read stories of people with vastly different experiences depending on their racial makeup, how their parents raised them, where they lived and where they wound up living, and, perhaps most importantly, how they look. But over and over again, we heard from respondents that they frequently felt isolated, confused about their identity, and frustrated when others attempted to dole them out into specific boxes.
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<em><strong>Michael Lahanas-Calderón, 24, based in Berkeley, California</strong></em>
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I’ve found terms to identify myself that feel somewhat comfortable but also somewhat unsatisfying. I don’t really know how to account for my mother’s background, which at best could be described as mestizo<em> </em>Colombian. Using the term “person of color” to account for it feels strange, just given what I see when I look in the mirror. But I also feel a kind of obligation not to let the complex mix of identities I inherited from my mother disappear into the whiteness inherited from my father. I don’t really know where that leaves me, to be honest, beyond using broader terms like Latino, Colombian-American, white-passing, mixed, or multiracial.
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Race didn’t come up a lot when I was growing up in suburban Ohio. Obviously, there was a Latino population there, but it wasn’t really a huge part of my life, beyond my mother in our home. It wasn’t like the way that Miami has the strong Cuban-American community. It was almost more an issue of whiteness and skin color being associated with some of those terms, which sort of changed the dynamic depending on the environment because I’m white-passing even with like a tan.
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My mom went to great lengths to make sure that I could succeed in the US. When I was still quite little, my Spanish skills were actually developing at a better pace than my English ones. That is, until someone suggested to her that if my English skills didn’t improve, I would be at risk of falling behind the other kids and need speech therapy. This really spurred her to take serious action. She read countless books to me every night in English until I was a bookworm who sounded as Midwestern as the rest of my neighbors. To this day, out of all the things she remembers about my academic career, my high marks on English tests are some of the ones she’s proudest of. But I would be remiss if I did not mention the efforts of my mother to teach me about her and my identity, homeland, and culture, too. She always taught me to be fiercely proud of my blended heritage, and to never be afraid to share it with others.
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At times it was pretty easy how well I had adjusted to suburban Ohio. I didn’t really think about the consequences of it until I was a little bit older, because it just got easier to not show that heritage. The shift away from that started in college, which was a much more progressive environment. I was sort of encouraged to explore that identity. We had a Latinx affinity group on campus and I think at times it was a little bit difficult for me to relate to others in the group. They were always welcoming, and it wasn’t that I didn’t feel included, but I think it was more that their experiences were so different from mine. The experience of being a Salvadoran American who is brown and grew up in, say, San Francisco with a pretty solid Latino community around them felt so wildly different from a white-passing, half-Colombian, half-American person growing up in suburban Ohio. We didn’t really have a lot in common beyond the shared language.
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It’s always been important to me to recognize both parts of my heritage. But I suppose the only one that really felt like it needed exploring was my Colombian side, because I was always within the dominant side of mainstream American culture.<em> </em>I think that at times it almost felt easier, like everyone encourages you to kind of fall into that mainstream culture and assimilate. If you don’t have that kind of connection to a first-gen or community of immigrants who are actually actively forming a social group, it’s very easy to let one side of your heritage — the one that’s not the dominant culture — slip away. It’s kind of one of my regrets, to be honest, and I’ve made an effort as I’ve gotten older to embrace that again. <em> </em>
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Right now, and this may change, I identify as a mixed-race Black person. But initially, I identified as bi-racial. I felt like growing up in the environment that I was in, an Ohio suburb, it was very clear to me that I was Black and I was mixed, but when I moved to New York, that dramatically changed. I got a lot of people not really being able to recognize me on sight. I’ve had to deal with an ethnic ambiguity that I never had to deal with before. So I had to figure out the language that I wanted to use to describe myself.<em> </em>
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I think part of that stems from the fact that when I grew up, my dad, who is Black, wasn’t really in my life, so a lot of my Black identity came from the Black people that my mother worked with and the neighborhood that I lived in. But also, my family was so white and, frankly, for as much as I love my mother, racist. My grandfather would not be in the same room with her the entire nine months she was pregnant. He couldn’t even hold me for the first couple months of my life.
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I sort of remember realizing my race when I was late elementary school age and I had gotten in trouble at my grandmother’s house. And I remember putting, like, baby powder on my skin and like trying to convince myself for whatever reason that I would not be as in trouble if I looked more like my mom.
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I also felt this struggle to feel connected with Black people when I was growing up.<em> </em>I felt often like a conditional Black person, and I think there are some mixed-race Black folks that have a lot of anger about that. When I was younger, I did. But I’ve also come to understand that the idea of being “authentically” Black is literally a response to things like the <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/onedrop.html">one drop rule</a> and this white supremacist idea of how we define race and mixed race, and<strong> </strong>Black identity being tied to sexual violence. So this reclamation of what it means to be Black is a byproduct of racism.<em> </em>
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There are also privileges I have that other non-mixed Black people don’t. I am lighter-skinned. I might not be white-passing, but I can pass as something else. Because for some people, I’m “racially ambiguous,” what has happened is I have found myself in situations with white people who feel very comfortable saying things that are not okay.<em> </em>It’s this sort of, “you’re not like other girls.”<em> </em>Like my grandfather wouldn’t even be in the same room with my mom, but then once I came into this world and they realized, “oh, she’s a baby and race has nothing to do with this,” it wasn’t, “we see Black people as human beings and we respect them.” It became: “You’re our Black child. And you’re the exception to the rule.<em>”</em>
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It’s weird being in places with people who try to make you the exception to the rule, and it makes me want to double down. Because I’m not an exception. I think that that has really made me embrace this idea of I am Black. I’m mixed, but I’m Black.
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<em><strong>Josh S., 24, based in Brooklyn, New York</strong></em>
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I identify as multiracial. There hasn’t really been another term that’s resonated with me in the same way. I like breaking it down a little — my family is white, and then on my dad’s side, I have family in Japan. I think the change in identity from when I was younger is that I actually have the language to describe who I am, which I lacked back then. I only knew that I wasn’t wholly white, but that it was thrown into pretty sharp contrast because I grew up in a town that was like 99 percent white.
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Being thought of as Asian was definitely foisted onto me. Because I did relatively well in school, there was a lot of like, “Oh, the Asian got a good math score.” There was something that felt off about that. Later I realized that, well, my race has absolutely nothing to do with how I perform in school. They were creating this entire persona and this cruel game out of where my grandmother came from. Toward the end of high school, there was just this resentment of that part of myself. Not necessarily that I wanted to stop being mixed race, but that I just kind of wanted being treated differently to go away.
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Going to college in Washington, DC, gave me that opportunity. Hardly anyone could tell that I was like anything but white. And so for a couple of years there, I got to experience the world without micro-aggressions and the casual racism that I had growing up.<em> </em>I was just able to coast by on whiteness, which was, coming from where I was, a bit of a relief. Of course, this was an environment that I didn’t fit into for a number of other reasons,<em> </em>even if I could present and act white. There was a substantial difference from my rural, more middle-class upbringing as opposed to the white wealthy upbringing many of my peers had. Even being white, it was a different kind of white.
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I think after a couple of years of wrestling with, “I’m never going to be white enough or rich enough to fit in with this,” brought me back to trying to reflect more on my grandma and her heritage and my father’s experience. My father identifies as a person of color, but his response to it, especially as he had children, was to sort of push it to the side. For all intents and purposes, my brother and I were raised with no connection to being Japanese, and he didn’t really do anything to encourage it.<em> </em>His experience growing up in rural Minnesota being called every racial slur under the sun, I think there’s trauma there.<em> </em>I think my parents operated to try and raise us to have a better and easier life.<em> </em>
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How I identify, and being non-binary, it’s something I’m grappling with constantly. This isn’t to say that my experience is harder than other people’s. But there is that constant vigilance to not, you know, slip into comfortable.<em> </em>As a masculine, white-passing person, life would probably go by fine for me. It’s having that self-awareness and continuously working on the awareness to keep pushing against white supremacy and patriarchy wherever it shows up.<em> </em>
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I consider myself to be Chicana and Black. On my dad’s side, I’m what a lot of Mexican people would call Hispanic, which is a pretty generic term. And then my mom is a Black woman who was adopted and raised by a white woman when she was 14. She is still really connected to her Black roots, and we have a big Black family that we’re so very connected to. But there’s kind of a few different layers in there.<em> </em>
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I’ve always identified as both, but I definitely felt a lot of pressure to identify or present myself in different ways throughout my life.<em> </em>I’ve heard some Black people say, “Well, mixed people aren’t actually Black.” And I think that a lot of that comes from a feeling that mixed people can maybe turn off their Blackness sometimes or that mixed people have features that may give them privileges. I would also hear things like, “Oh, well, it’s a shame that Thema is not more light-skinned.”<em> </em>It’s like, I’m not Black enough, but I’m simultaneously too Black, you know?<em> </em>
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At the same time, people who maybe aren’t Black or who aren’t mixed look at me as a Black woman. It is hard for me to get people to understand that just because I don’t look Chicana doesn’t mean that I’m not. In New Mexico, Chicana culture is such a big thing there, I think that most people in New Mexico identify with it to some extent. So I didn’t face as much judgment for not being “Chicana enough” as I did until I moved away.
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When I was in college, I went to Howard, and that really changed the way that I was able to identify with the Black part of me. I had never been in a place where there were so many Black people that looked so many different ways. There were so many mixes, and with so many different countries, so many different socioeconomic backgrounds.<em> </em>I really felt really accepted and loved for the first time.<em> </em>
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I think I kind of really grew up as a chameleon and I learned how to code switch and communicate with a lot of different people when I was really young. I think that there’s something special about that.<em> </em>But I think it does come with a cost.<em> </em>I really experienced it from both sides — I’ve experienced colorism,<em> </em>I’ve experienced people saying, “Well, you’re not Black and you’re not Mexican enough.” I feel really strongly connected to both, but at the same time, sometimes I feel like I belong to neither.
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I am a mix of Brazilian and Lebanese descent. I think my identity is very much like a Venn diagram, where I keep moving around those various circles and the overlap keeps changing all the time. The one thing I have kept constant is some sense of mixedness. If I have to put myself in a commonly recognized box, it would be Latino.
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I grew up in inner-city Philly, in a predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood. I very much connected to those communities and those cultures and tried to do everything to highlight my Latino-ness — from clothes to manner of speech. My father being Lebanese, I think he experienced some prejudices when he moved to the country, given the long history with our region, and was never eager for me to play up that part of my heritage and culture. So growing up in a predominantly Brazilian household, it was just easier to move forward with that, which is another reason why I think I’ve identified as Latino more predominantly.<em> </em>
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As I got older and progressed into the engineering world, I sort of shifted. That was probably the first time I was in a very white-dominant setting. I did a lot of stuff to play my Latinoness down until I left for the social impact field where I thought I could sort of reconnect with the Latino pieces of me<em>.</em>
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Even now, there’s elements of my identity that don’t get represented so clearly to someone who sees me as an early- to mid-career professional, especially if they’re white. I do get, “Oh, you’re not bad!” especially if I talk about being Latino, growing up in that neighborhood and going to an inner-city public school where I’m treated a certain kind of way by teachers and the powers that be. It’s always frustrating or disappointing because when I hear that, that very much means to me that you don’t see me. Like you want to be comfortable with me in a certain box. You’re not interested in the actual things that have shaped me to be who I am today.<em> </em>
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I’ve been called ethnically ambiguous by more than one person.<em> </em>It makes me feel like a blank slate sometimes. But in some ways, it is kind of cool because I feel like if someone’s trying to identify with you or call you one of them, that creates openness to actually connect with people.
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<em><strong>Kristina, 43, based in Los Angeles, California</strong></em>
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I identify proudly as a multiracial woman and as a woman of color.<em> </em>This is because the world sees me as a woman of color. I’ve never been perceived as a white woman.
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I only recently became confident that I could just, in some circumstances, say “I’m Filipino.” I don’t always have to qualify the basis of my identity to everybody. That is very new for me because people always felt the need to say, “You’re only half,” or remind me that I’m also white<em>. </em>But as I’ve gotten older, and just with more recent conversations about race, I’ve come to realize that I don’t care anymore.<em> </em>I am Filipino, I am white. I don’t always have to say all of my mixed percentages to everybody.
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When I was younger, I would always qualify everything by saying, “I am half white.” I didn’t want people to think I was trying to co-opt any identities or infringe on anyone’s spaces. In college, friends would take me to Filipino student group meetings, and I just always felt like an imposter, like I didn’t have a right to be there. I don’t know if that’s true or not to this day. I still don’t quite know my place sometimes. I just know I feel at home in the Filipino community with my Filipino family. <em> </em>
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At the same time, I didn’t want to feel like that was denying my mom. Even though I don’t identify as a white person, I was raised by a white mom who has a beautiful history and life too. So I don’t like to discount that.
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I sort of loathe the inevitable reductive discussions that pop up whenever a multiracial person comes up, whether that’s Kamala Harris or Bruno Mars<em>. </em>I just wish the world knew they don’t get to tell multiracial people how we identify. Each of our own experiences is incredibly unique, depending on who we are raised by, where we were raised, how we look.
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I also wish people would stop portraying mixed people as so tragic. I grew up in the ’90s and every discussion about it was about how we were so tortured. It almost seemed like they were putting it out there as a cautionary tale about having multiracial children. But for me, most of the “negative” aspects of being mixed were external, not internal. I absolutely would not change being mixed for the world.<em> </em>
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Members of the Virginia National Guard equip themselves at the US Capitol building on January 17. | Samuel Corum/Getty Images
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A 22-year-old man from Virginia, Guy Berry, was arrested while carrying a handgun, three high-capacity magazines, and 37 rounds of ammunition near the US Capitol on Sunday, becoming the third person detained by police this weekend amid heightened security measures put in place in response to the January 6 insurrection.
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According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/capitol-security-zone-arrests/2021/01/17/41c60318-58e2-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html">Washington Post’s Laura Meckler</a>, Berry’s weapon — a Glock 22 — was visible in a holster; his aunt told the paper, “He’s one of those open-carry people,” and added, “I keep telling him Black men can’t walk around with guns on his hip, but he doesn’t believe me.”
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It is not clear why Berry was near the Capitol; according to the Post, he is a supporter of President Donald Trump, a fact he seems to display openly on what Meckler notes appears to be his Facebook page. His aunt said Berry has often shared his pro-Trump stance with her.
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<a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/police-virginia-man-22-arrested-near-us-capitol-with-illegal-handgun-ammo">Washington, DC’s ABC News station</a> reports Berry was arrested for having a handgun without a license, as well as for carrying high capacity magazines, and having unregistered ammunition. In <a href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/general-requirements-firearms-registration">the city</a>, it is illegal to possess an unregistered gun, to openly carry a gun, to have a magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition, and to carry ammunition without having registered a gun.
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Berry’s arrest follows that of fellow Virginian <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/16/22234985/capitol-police-arrest-armed-man-security-checkpoint-inauguration">Wesley Beeler</a>, who was arrested by US Capitol Police on Friday, also for having an unregistered Glock — and for providing what the department called an “unauthorized” inaugural credential at a security checkpoint.
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Beeler has claimed that he is a security contractor hired to reinforce the National Guard troops, Secret Service, Capitol Police, and DC city police who have increased their presence ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. He told the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/16/capitol-protests-live-updates-inauguration-security/#link-EPGWV375D5DB3LXAJ4HTERL6XI">Washington Post</a> that having a gun on him was an “honest mistake” caused by his haste as he rushed to work.
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“I pulled up to a checkpoint after getting lost in DC because I’m a country boy. I showed them the inauguration badge that was given to me,” Beeler said, adding, “I don’t know what the DC laws are. It still comes back on me, but I’m not a criminal.”
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Saturday, Capitol Police made a second arrest, of a woman <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/01/17/957835652/police-arrest-man-with-handgun-woman-impersonating-officer-near-d-c-checkpoints">NPR</a> reports is 63-year-old Linda Magovern, from Connecticut.
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She is not reported to have had a weapon, but reportedly first told officers she was a law enforcement official, before telling them she was a member of the president’s Cabinet. According to police, she also showed them “a round metallic object later identified as a Military Police Challenge Coin” — a memento usually given to members of a military unit or police force for identification purposes, or to honor a member’s participation in a notable event.
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All three arrests come as security forces in Washington are on high alert. Following a delayed and criticized response to the insurrection at the Capitol, security around federal buildings has increased sharply, as <a href="https://www.vox.com/22229597/capitol-national-guard-security-inauguration-washington">Vox’s Alex Ward</a> has reported. Newly erected fences surround much of the National Mall and Capitol complex, and the city is expected to host <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/15/22233623/national-guard-capitol-secret-service-fbi-washington-dc">25,000 National Guard troops</a> by Inauguration Day on January 20. Thousands of police and Secret Service members are also on duty.
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And as <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/16/22234985/capitol-police-arrest-armed-man-security-checkpoint-inauguration">Vox’s Li Zhou</a> has written, many parts of the city are simply inaccessible:
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The Secret Service has also worked with local officials to facilitate a large number of street closures, according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/15/ahead-inauguration-much-dc-closed-off-like-never-before/?arc404=true">Washington Post</a>, dividing the area around the White House, National Mall, and the Capitol into “red” and “green” zones. In the red zones, which encircle federal buildings and national monuments, traffic is limited to authorized vehicles; in the green zones surrounding these red zones, resident and business traffic is allowed.
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Throughout both these zones are security checkpoints, where all three people detained were reportedly arrested.
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Amid intelligence about possible threats, security is expected to remain tight, at least through the inauguration. And some newly instituted measures are expected to be more permanent. New metal detectors have been erected near the chambers of Congress — and, much to the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22226869/congress-security-lauren-boebert-guns-storming-capitol-metal-detectors">consternation of some members</a>, even lawmakers must go through them.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Australia vs India | It will be about bowling in good areas on day five, being patient: Smith</strong> - The rain factor is also going to be a crucial one on the final day but Smith would rather focus on controllables.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Australia vs India | Cracks on Brisbane strip will play on batsman's mind, feels Siraj</strong> - Playing in his maiden Test series, Siraj grabbed 5 for 73 in the Australian second innings on Monday.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SL vs ENG, 1st Test, Day 5 | England beats Sri Lanka by 7 wickets in first Test</strong> - Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence held their nerve in a 52-run unbroken stand to guide England to a seven-wicket win on January 18 on the fifth and fin</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Japan PM vows to press ahead with Olympics amid virus surge</strong> - “We will have full anti-infection measures in place and proceed with preparation with a determination to achieve the Games that can deliver hope and courage throughout the world,” Mr. Suga said.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Legendary leg-spinner B.S. Chandrasekhar recovering, health condition stable</strong> - His wife said that the former Indian cricketer is expected to be back home this week.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Punjab farmers all set to start tractor marches to Delhi</strong> - Ahead of a proposed ‘tractor parade’ in Delhi on Republic day</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Forest officials seize 414 live Indian Star Tortoises; two from Odisha arrested in East Godavari</strong> - Forest Ranger V. Durga Kumar Babu said the tortoises will be released into river Godavari as they are alive.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Crime Branch probing charges against Uduma MLA: CM</strong> - Allegation that he threatened a Presiding Officer during local body polls</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Alexei Navalny: EU and US demand release of poisoned Putin critic</strong> - Alexei Navalny is arrested in Moscow five months after a nerve agent attack nearly killed him.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Review: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ends run with disappointing finale</strong> - Even the best episode of the series can't save S4 from a sloppy, muddled final season. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1732652">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 2: The particle melting pot</strong> - In which lasers do things that make absolutely no sense but give us great clocks. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1659460">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>After a decade, NASA’s big rocket fails its first real test</strong> - "It's not everything we hoped it would be." - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1735435">link</a></p></li>
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The American doctor laughs: "You are all behind us. A few years ago, we took a man with no brain, no heart, and no liver, and made him President. Now, the whole country is looking for a job!"
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One is in Arizona, the other is in Colorado.
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When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.
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So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself."
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condolences on your loss."
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The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.
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"Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains.
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"It's just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."
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“It hasn't affected my brothers though."
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You know, heroin
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I said "Thats the fifth time you've said that today"
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The man stammered, "Yes."
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Bang! The robber shoots him.
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He then turns the gun on the married couple next in line, points the gun at the husband and demands, "Did you see me rob this bank?" The husband quickly responds, "No....but my wife did!"
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