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Biden to Oversee a Kinder, Gentler Repression
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
10 Nov 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Biden to Oversee a Kinder, Gentler Repression

“The Democratic Party has used the language of law and order as much as the Republicans,” said Justin Lang, a doctoral candidate and activist at Brown University. Joe Biden “will try to maintain the same state of policing” as his predecessors “and just make it seem less repressive on the surface.”

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