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All doormen, for example, and all policemen have by now, for me, become exactly the same, and my style with them is designed simply to intimidate them before they can intimidate me. No doubt I am guilty of some injustice here, but it is irreducible, since I cannot risk assuming that the humanity of these people is more real to them than their uniforms. Most Negroes cannot risk assuming that the humanity of white people is more real to them than their color.
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
There’s also a clean partisan divide. Nine of the 10 states that sent the most to the federal government, per person, voted for President Biden in 2020. Nine of the 10 states that sent the least voted for former president Donald Trump. The typical resident of deep-blue Connecticut sent almost three times as much to Washington as the typical resident of deep-red Mississippi.
Analysis | Do Blue-State Taxes Really Subsidize Red-State Benefits?
Andrew Van Dam and Linda Chong
In North America we consider such tragedies acts of God, but Brazil, to its credit, lays the blame on road operators, who can be sued for damages. This struck me as not only a legal innovation but a philosophical one, a redirection of culpability from driver to engineer.
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