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The Obamas are cashing in on their lifelong project to further the destruction of Black people, while blaming the victim.
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, BAR contributor
13 June 2018
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, BAR managing editor
12 May 2016
"the president cynically leveraged his blackness to obscure the fact that he was refusing to go after the guilty parties, while proposing n
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, BAR managing editor
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, BAR managing editor
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