She never said it was
the police, by the way (she
casually refused,
in an article about police killings, to place the blame anywhere), and we know
it wasn't, because the police killed about 19 unarmed black males in 2017, and
black people killed about 2,627 —
a difference of over a hundred times. In fact, in 2018, black people killed about 2,600 black people, and
whites in general — all of us, despite being 60% of the populace — killed only
234, more than ten times fewer. The greatest danger to black people
in America today is always other black
people. Black lives matter to Black Lives Matter only when it gives
them an excuse to attack white people.
What Do They Really Want?
Imani Bashir, writing for
the New York Times, says, "Living abroad is my way of prolonging
my black son's life." It's actually the title of the
article. She says she's been living abroad for years now, in places
like Cairo and Poland and Malaysia and Wuhan (yes, that Wuhan),
and that the bills are piling up and they're eating at her
soul. Still, she won't move back to America. She sees her
son's face in every black person the police kill. She's stuck in
Florida for the moment, waiting for the borders to ease up so she can go
anywhere else.
Her husband, from
Buffalo, New York, is traveling with her, coaching American football where he
can. She says before he turned 25, 30 of his friends had been killed. They never
talked about white picket fences when they got married. They said if
they were going to make it, if their son was going to make it, they had to go
anywhere but here.
But notice they didn't
go anywhere. They went to Poland, noted for its strict
(and some say "bigoted") stances on immigration and gay rights;
Cairo, a place that just blew up a few years ago, is looking to blow up again,
and is known for its horrible treatment of women; and China, a communist
country known for locking up Christians and Muslims and honest reporters, for
not having habeas corpus, for selling the organs of political
prisoners, and for grinding its workers into the dust. It's a firm
supporter of the most oppressive, volatile states in Asia, the Middle East, and
Africa. It has a domestic surveillance system seen only in our most
harrowing classics of science fiction. Nineteen eighty-four came
almost to life, and Imani Bashir moved there instead of Schenectady.
I mention these things
because of where she didn't go. For instance, if
she can scratch out a living on the fly, why not anywhere in black
Africa? Why not the sub-Saharan region, where, as Howard French
reports in China's Second Continent, 10 of the 20 fastest
growing economies exist? Why not somewhere where the cost of living
is cheaper and where, since she says racism exists everywhere,
there could be little to no racism against her son?
These questions deserve a
solid answer — especially if it's anything other than "I don't want to
live around black people." It should also be asked of all
the other famous black people who don't want to live around black people. Beyond this,
I think it's questionable that 30 of her husband's friends died at the hands of
the police. She never said it was the police, by the way (she
casually refused, in an article about police killings, to place the blame
anywhere), and we know it wasn't, because the police killed about
19 unarmed black males in 2017, and black people killed
about 2,627 — a difference of over a hundred times. In fact,
in 2018, black people killed about 2,600 black people, and whites in general —
all of us, despite being 60% of the populace — killed only 234, more than ten
times fewer. The greatest danger to black people in America today
is always other black people. Black lives matter
to Black Lives Matter only when it gives them an excuse to attack white people.
My theory is that she
doesn't go to black Africa because she doesn't feel safe around black people,
and she doesn't want to be confused for them. He doesn't,
either. It's what they call a hidden bias. People
with the sort of mindset I suspect here know that a fraction of their 13% of
Americans is responsible for 50% of the crime, and they're
profiling. The fact is, they can't say it. Once they
admit it, the whole anti-racism scam is up. It means white parents,
whose children, according to the FBI, are killed twice as
often by black people than the other way around, have more of an excuse to
move their kids to Poland. It means they have a
reason to stop busing black kids to white schools, and going soft on crime, and
beating their chests, and being hard on police. But Bashir says
she's scared of us — and because she's afraid, people are
rioting. I remind you that racism means being
afraid of people for things they don't do.
The question is, what
does she want? The New York Times reports that Minneapolis,
like all the other places on fire, is one of the most liberal cities in the
nation. Surpassing even Seattle, Minneapolis has black people on the
City Council. Two of these black council members are
transgender. None of them is a Republican. Juneteenth
gets a yearly parade, and the police chief, until this week, was a black
man. They're so devoted to fighting racism that you can't zone for
single-family housing anymore — ostensibly to make the housing cheaper for
blacks and to keep richer whites from having better neighborhoods to move
to.
This means that
Minneapolis and all the other left-wing cities on fire already do everything
they can to police the police — and if they go any farther, they'll have to get
rid of them altogether. The main job of the police officer, after
all, is not to stop crimes in progress (since there are too few of them to see
everything), but to show up after the fact and then sniff out a
suspect. This means everyone who fits a criminal's description in
the area will be tracked down, picked up, tied up, and locked up — and if he
refuses, probably beaten up. If he refuses too manfully, possibly
killed. In a country of 330 million people, there are going to be a
few dozen murders by cop. But you get rid of this right to track,
and you've gotten rid of the police. You get rid of profiling, and
you get rid of the concept of policing. You get
rid of the police, and you get rid of society. And Minneapolis,
where the violent crime rate was already horrible — this year, before the
riots, twice the national average, and last year three —
is already too dangerous. Thanks to Black Lives Matter blowing up
the police stations, it is about to get worse.
I ask you again — what
does Imani Bashir want? What they all want and can't say: to
live somewhere her son can't theoretically be mistaken for or hurt by a black
criminal. It's a legitimate want. We
want it for all good black people, too. But Black Lives Matter isn't finding
ways to stop the criminals. It's instead finding ways, mostly, to
punish the innocent. Bashir profiles and runs and barricades
herself, and she's a victim of racism. I just wish that she, and the
Black Lives Matter movement, and The New York Times, would respect us when we
do it, too. They won't.
Jeremy Egerer is the
author of the troublesome essays on Letters
to Hannah, and he welcomes followers on
Twitter and Facebook.
The American left
does not recognize
America's
government
Thanks to the useful death of St. George Floyd of the Church
of Black Lives Matter, the execrable Ben Crump has found the best way ever to leverage
his profile and his bank account. Crump attaches himself like a
leech to high-profile black deaths and will use any means necessary to push a
narrative. His latest push is to use Floyd's family as a means to
attack American sovereignty by appealing to the U.N. to police America's
police.
Crump's made a career out of representing the families of
black men who died during interactions with the police or who otherwise had
politically useful deaths. Considering how few unarmed blacks die at police hands
(especially since Trump became president), Crump probably has to leverage cases
to make a profit. (There's profit to be had with the Floyd family,
who are now the beneficiaries of a $13.8-million GoFundMe campaign.) That
lust for fame and money may explain why Crump held his tongue when the
prosecution against George Zimmerman for Trayvon Martin's death used a fake witness to push the
narrative that Martin was a good kid, not a wannabe thug.
With Floyd's death, Crump is going beyond America and
speaking to the world. He has written an open letter to the U.N. to demand that it
step in to govern America's police departments:
The group sent a letter on June 3 to one of the
international body's working groups asking for support for the end of the
provision of military equipment and military-type training for police, the
teaching of deescalation techniques, independent prosecutions and autopsies for
"extrajudicial" police killings, and more.
"When a group of people of any nation have
been systemically deprived of their universal human right to life by its
government for decades, it must appeal to the international community for its
support and to the United Nations for its intervention," Floyd's
family attorney Ben Crump said in a press release.
A few things need to be said: first, this is an attack on
American sovereignty, something that bothers Americans but not
Democrats. (I'm not even pretending anymore that Democrats consider
themselves Americans. They see themselves as world citizens fighting
the evil that is America.)
Second, this is the same U.N. that has nothing to say about
police abuses in China, among the Palestinians, in Venezuela, or anywhere else
in the world that's not America.
Third, this is the same U.N. that allowed its
"peacekeepers" (i.e., its police) to commit sexual abuse against thousands of
black children in Africa and Haiti.
Fourth, this is the same U.N. that allows Palestinian
terrorists to use its ambulances in the terrorists'
perpetual wars against Israeli citizens.
Fifth, the U.N.'s high commissioner for human rights, Michelle
Bachelet, insisted that Floyd's death
was the "latest in a long line of killings of unarmed African Americans by
U.S. police officers and members of the public" and urged "serious
action." The U.N. is champing at the bit to demean America.
Crump knows that the U.N. cannot affect policing in
America. This is theater, but it's disgusting theater to see a
race-hustler appeal to an anti-American organization that has no trouble with
totalitarian organizations around the world abusing people under their control,
and that turned a blind eye for decades to its own organization's abuse of
blacks. Thinking about Crump's conduct, perhaps it's time to drag
out the Logan Act...
Chutzpah Cities: Bailouts, beggings, and food deserts, starting
with Minneapolis
Exhibit
A is Minneapolis, whose far-left mayor failed to protect
his city from a multi-night orgy of looting and rioting and now
wants a $55-million taxpayer bailout to sweep the entire mess under the
rug.
There
are a lot of blue cities out there with an unusual sense of
entitlement. We got the first whiff of it during the coronavirus
stimulus debate, as mismanaged blue metropolises demanded pension and
other unrelated bailouts from Congress from what were supposed to be
emergency response funds.
But
now in the wake of riots, they're really getting bad. They're
demanding taxpayer bailouts for riot damage after failing to protect their
cities, all so they could claim they were woke. They're
begging big box retailers not to pull up stakes and leave after
allowing them to be trashed and looted. They're complaining about
sudden food deserts appearing as inner-city shopkeepers are thrown out of
business after being robbed, burned, and destroyed and wondering why
these stores don't re-open. It all underlines an amazing failure to
recognize any consequences for bad decisions taken, coupled with a howling
sense of entitlement. Call these solid blue
failures "Chutzpah Cities."
Exhibit
A is Minneapolis, whose far-left mayor failed to protect
his city from a multi-night orgy of looting and rioting and now
wants a $55-million taxpayer bailout to sweep the entire mess under the
rug.
Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey is
ordering city officials to begin a wide-ranging query of the damage done to the
city's infrastructure from the race riots that began last week after the death
of George Floyd, planning on requesting a federal bailout for the city to
repair the damages done by "protestors."
Early preliminary estimates gauge the price tag
of property damage from the riots at more than $55 million dollars. Frey is
already working with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar and representatives Ilhan Omar
and Betty McCollum on a potential bailout package for the city.
Any
apology for bad decisions? Any promise to return to rule of
law so taxpayers don't have to keep doing this to
eternity? Normally, bailouts come with tough conditions
for reform to ensure future sustainability. But Frey has
no intention of reform; he just wants you to bankroll his latest social
experiment.
Reform
in Minneapolis comes not raising the price for rioting and looting
and promising to enforce law in order, but by getting rid of the
police. Frey's lashed to the mast with a rabid far-left city
council, which has enacted a veto-proof majority to de-fund the entire police
force. That'll ensure that riots and looting don't happen
again, right? Apparently, the next spray-shooter can rest easy and
fire away, as the police will be gone. It's an idea so bad that it
sounds as if an enemy dreamed it up. It can only be called
a plan for permanent bailouts, because the results will be a
disaster. The plan seems to be to make Minneapolis a second Cuba,
always looking for the next Uncle Sugar to sustain its communist
failures. And the productive members of society are supposed to go
along with this, gladly emptying their pocketbooks.
Frey,
the mayor of Minneapolis, was last seen doing some kind of chicken dance,
which gives you an idea as to how busy he's been:
Minneapolis
Mayor Jacob Frey is an embarrassment and he will go down as the worst mayor in
the history of the United States of America.
And what is he wearing!
And what is he wearing!
He's
not the only one running a blue Chutzpah City.
How
about the mayor of Chicago, who, after failing to protect her city's big box
retailers from an orgy of looting, called upon these establishments not
to leave her city?
This has
to be satire.
She pleaded with retailers to stay after she allowed their stores to be looted? https://www.wnd.com/2020/06/mayor-pleads-walmart-retailers-not-abandon-chicago/ …
She pleaded with retailers to stay after she allowed their stores to be looted? https://www.wnd.com/2020/06/mayor-pleads-walmart-retailers-not-abandon-chicago/ …
Mayor pleads
with Walmart, other retailers to not abandon Chicago - WND
No
promises of no looting again ever. Just calls to stay and get looted
again. No sane business would take her up on her
offer. There are plenty of other places to go, where law and order
still mean something and where making money doesn't have to be discounted by
losses from looters. The citizens of these blue cities are
likely to go where they go as well. All of the major blue cities are
losing people, something that makes the big boxers even less likely to be able
to turn a profit. Fewer people, fewer buyers, all the result of
blue-city policies, which include high taxes and low job creation
rates. Chicago for sure is among them.
Then
there's this plaintive whine:
Looters
Clear Out Groceries In Chicago’s South Side, Leaving Residents With Little Food
http://ow.ly/d01730qNwFR
Looters Clear
Out Groceries In Chicago’s South Side, Leaving Residents With Little Food –
True...
Brought
on by this:
“They
tell me ‘Black Lives Matter.’ They’re lying . . . I’m black, look what you did
to my store.”https://nypost.com/2020/06/06/shop-owners-reveal-the-financial-and-emotional-struggles-of-being-looted/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons&fbclid=IwAR2RiqnAsUteOrudErv3Nw5LFMpfZgGwCkhRbtqyt2_wRYnuWSLvN8Bexzg …
Shop owners
reveal financial and emotional struggles of being looted
What
the heck did they think would happen if they allowed rich, white Antifa
trust-fund bunnies to go out and loot struggling small inner-city businesses
with little cushion for recovery? Thomas Lifson predicted that in these pages very early. People who
work 16-hour days and operate on razor-thin margins don't recover from mob
assaults easily. Did they really think these businesses could
shake the losses from mass looting and destruction like water off a duck's
back? The hard reality is, trash your small, struggling businesses,
and there won't be small, struggling businesses. Good luck getting
the tax revenue to pay for the bloated bureaucracies.
The
whole thing underlines the ugly reality about leftists: that they lack
introspection and firmly believe they have nothing to answer
for. Kevin Williamson has an excellent piece on that here. For the left, there's
no sense of making things better with this bunch, there's just an adherence to
the socialist template, failure after failure, letting someone else pay the
bill. All we see in this wretched picture is entitlement and greed, even when
they are sitting there in the mud, the victims of their own abhorrent
decisions. This is chutzpah in the extreme, the classic phony plea of man
who killed his parents, and then told the judge to have mercy on
him for he was an orphan.
It
calls to mind that they really do need to bear the consequences of their own
bad decisions, hard as it may be. This may be the only way to halt the extreme
leftward slide of the Democratic Party. That may well be the real meaning of
President Trump's presidency, for surely he will put a stop to this, as long as
he remains in office.
Imagine
how bad it would be if Joe Biden were in the presidential
saddle instead. These blue cities, it is reported, are already
supposedly waiting or their 'Biden bailouts, refusing to cut
spending,
refusing to reform, waiting for Biden to come onboard to bail them out, knowing
that Trump will see right through them and their toddler-like
entitlement and tell them no. It underlines why Biden must never be elected
president. Just say no to these spoiled brats who fail to learn from their
mistakes, and like socialists, just keep making the same mistakes over and over
and over.
Video: Should Whites Kneel Down and Beg Black People for
Forgiveness?
The Left’s radical agenda takes a twisted -- but expected -- turn.
June 9, 2020
Frontpagemag.com
This new Glazov Gang episode features Brandon Straka, the Campaign Founder for #WalkAway.
Brandon focuses on: Should Whites Kneel Down and Beg Black People for Forgiveness?, shedding disturbing light on: The Left’s Radical Agenda Takes a Twisted -- But Expected -- Turn.
Don’t miss it!
And make sure to watch Will Johnson, the Founder of UniteAmericaFirst.com, discuss Where Are the Protests for David Dorn?, where he sheds a disturbing light on When Back Lives Don’t Matter — to Black Lives Matter.
Follow us on Twitter: @JamieGlazov.
Black
Lives Matter Managing Director Roasted for Dodging Questions on Finances,
Antisemitism
393
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Kailee
Scales, managing director for Black Lives Matter Network Action Fund and
Black Lives Matter Global Network, Inc., has been universally panned for her
performance in an online Q&A where she dodged simple questions
about where donations to the movement actually go.
Scales was
the subject of an “AMA” or “Ask Me Anything” discussion on Reddit Monday. Over
the course of 17 total answers, she explained the group’s advocacy for
defunding police departments and addressed issues of crime, violence, and the
Wuhan coronavirus as they relate to Black Lives Matter protests. However, the
reactions to many of her posts were overwhelmingly negative, with users
complaining about vague and tone-deaf answers to basic questions.
Join me live on Reddit NOW https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gyzs79/i_am_kailee_scales_managing_director_for_black/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf …
Finances was one
particular focus of Scales’ critics. Black Lives Matter has been the recipient
of millions of dollars in the past few weeks, as a string of corporations and celebrities announced massive donations for
her organization to establish social justice bona fides for themselves.
“Obviously right now BLM is getting MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of dollars in donations,” asked one
Reddit user. “Where is all the money going and how is it allocated?”
“Yeah, I would love to see a report
about the amount of donations and for what it was used. Without this, the
organization only uses the BLM name tag to get donations,” another said in the
ensuing discussion thread.
Scales ignored these messages but
eventually answered a question on the same topic. It did not go over well.
“When people give money to Black
Lives Matter, where specifically does it go?” one user asked.
“What’s financial transparency like for your organization?”
Scales gave a terse, generic reply.
“Hi — great question. Right now, our programs are focused on civic engagement,
expansion of chapters, Arts & Culture, organizing and digital advocacy
resources and tools,” she said. “Please visit our website and subscribe to
blacklivesmatter.com for updates and more information to come!”
This response did not satisfy the
Q&A participants, who signaled their disapproval by “downvoting” Scales’
reply. Her post currently has -1163 net votes. The top comment on that
thread asked: “Why don’t you post actual links to where the funding goes?
This is not an answer.” Several Redditors then tried looking up tax information
for the foundation, questioning whether it is even a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Scales also received copious
criticism and downvotes on the topic of antisemitism,
offering only a rote denunciation of “hate speech or bias of any kind.” One
user gave specific examples of alleged antisemitism in the movement, asking how
BLM will fight bigotry within its own ranks:
Your organization has been accused
of anti-semitism both by its members, it’s alliances, and its reverence for
avowed Jew haters. For example, the myth that Jews were particularly involved
in the slave trade seems to be particularly pervasive and pernicious, and is
entirely fabricated by the Nation of Islam. Jews on the streets of Brooklyn
have been repeatedly targetted by black citizens in violent crimes. BLM has
turned a blind eye to antisemitism in its support of the Palestinian cause, a
cause in no way related to black equality in the United States.
It should be obvious that equality
for blacks people cannot be achieved through bigotry and subjugation of another
oppressed group.
What are you doing to fight bigotry
within BLM?
Scales flatly denied any problems
with Jew hatred in the movement: “I am not sure where you receive your
information, but BLM is a political home for all those marginalized, invisible,
and oppressed by the dominant culture,” she said. “We do not support or express
hate speech or bias of any kind.” That post currently stands at nearly -800 net
votes.
“Not surprised at all by their
non-answer,” one reply stated. “I support the protests, police reform, and
especially black lives. But if the organization can’t even disavow the many
anti-Semitic statements and dog whistles it puts out, there needs to be a
better group leading this righteous cause.”
The most-upvoted comment in
the entire discussion summarized frustrations with Scales’ evasive
answers: “As a Black woman, I’m really disappointed… this AMA has really
colored me to BLM as not having themselves together with hard and fast facts,”
one user wrote. “I’m done reading this AMA because it’s not [answers about
anything]. It’s a lot of reposting and saying going to BLM website.”
Are you an insider at LinkedIn, Google,
Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, or any other tech company who wants to
confidentially reveal wrongdoing or political bias at your company? Reach out
to Allum Bokhari at his secure email address allumbokhari@protonmail.com.
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology
correspondent at Breitbart News.
$454
Million: Corporate America Floods Social Justice Causes With Cash Amid Floyd
Protests
612
6:28
Corporations are opening up their treasuries to give
money to social justice causes, including Black Lives Matter, in the wake of
nationwide protests and riots over the death of George Floyd.
Many
of the big companies are pushing their employees to do the same.
Some businesses are donating
to controversial bail funds like the Minnesota Freedom Fund that seek to bail
out protestors and rioters.
Here
is a list thus far.
Sony Music—A fund “to support social justice and anti-racist initiatives
around the world”—$100 million
Walmart—a new racial equity center—$100 million
Warner Music—campaigns against violence and racism and social justice causes
related to music industry—$100 million.
Nike—”Organizations that put social justice, education and
addressing racial inequality in America at the center of their work”—$40
million
Alphabet/Google—Various organizations, starting with $1m each to Center for
Policing Equity and Equal Justice Initiative—$12 million
Amazon—ACLU Foundation, Brennan Center for Justice, Equal Justice
Initiative, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, NAACP, National Bar
Association, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National
Urban League, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, UNCF (United Negro College Fund),
Year Up—$10 million
Facebook—“groups working on racial justice”—$10 million
Target—long-standing partners such as the National Urban League and
the African American Leadership Forum in addition to adding new partners in
Minneapolis-St. Paul and across the country—$10 million
Verizon—National Urban League, National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, National Action Network, Leadership Conference for Civil and
Human Rights, Rainbow Push Coalition, National Coalition on Black Civic
Participation, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund—$10 million
United Health—YMCA Equity Innovation Center of Excellence and Minneapolis-St
Paul businesses—$10 million
Goldman Sachs—donor-advised fund to support “leading organizations addressing
racial injustice, structural inequity and economic disparity”—$10 million
Spotify—matching employee donations—$10 million
Disney—organizations that advance social justice—$5 million
Procter & Gamble—NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, YWCA
Stand Against Racism and United Negro College Fund; also smaller organizations
that mobilize and advocate, such as Courageous Conversation—$5 million
Cisco—Equal Justice Initiative, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, Color of Change, Black Lives Matter and a Cisco fund for fighting racism
and discrimination—$5 million
Lego—organizations supporting black children and educating all
children about racial equality—$4 million
Microsoft—Black Lives Matter, Equal Justice Initiative, Innocence
Project, Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, Minnesota Freedom Fund and NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund—$1.25 million
Starbucks—“Organizations
promoting racial equity and more inclusive and just communities” nominated by
employees—$1.25 million
Intel—support of efforts to address social injustice and anti-racism
across various nonprofits and community organizations; and encouraging
employees to consider donating to organizations focused on equity and social
justice, including the Black Lives Matter Foundation, the Center for Policing
Equity and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, all of which are eligible for Intel’s
Donation Matching Program—$1 million
McDonald’s—unspecified—$1 million
Uber—Equal Justice Initiative and Center for Policing Equity—$1
million
Duke Energy–nonprofit organizations committed to social justice and racial
equity–$1 million
The Travelers Companies–organizations such as the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, the National Urban League, YWCA Minneapolis and the We
Love Midway fund established by the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce in
collaboration with the City of St. Paul–$1 million.
Warby Parker–organizations “combating systemic racism”–$1 million
PwC Charitable Foundation—NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Dream
Corps, American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Policing Equity—$1 million
Glosser—$500,000 to various organization that are focused on combating
racial injustice, including Black Lives Matter, The NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, and We The Protesters; also an additional $500,000 in grants
to Black-owned beauty businesses—$1 million.
Etsy—$500,000 to the Equal Justice Initiative, $500,000 to Borealis
Philanthropy’s Black-Led Movement Fund, and match any employee donations—$1
million.
Yelp Foundation—Equal Justice Initiative and NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund—$500,000
H&M—National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Color of Change—$500,000
Levi’s—$100,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and
$100,000 in grants to Live Free USA—$200,000
Lululemon—the Minnesota Freedom Fund—$100,000
Lululemon—the Minnesota Freedom Fund—$100,000
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