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Mumia: Trump’s America Shows Its Nasty Butt
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
16 Aug 2017
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The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, reveal the raw racism endemic to the United States, said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay for Prison Radio. To ask Trump to condemn white supremacists “is like asking grapes to condemn jelly,” said Mumia. “They are part of him, and he is part of them.”

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