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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKP Daily with Meet

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Speaker 1: your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: Over the last several years, we have witnessed a disturbing trend.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure in your mind you're saying which one, Danielle,

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Speaker 1: because there have been so many. But the trend that

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about is one that Jammel Bowie recently wrote

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Speaker 1: about in an opinion piece for The New York Times

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Speaker 1: entitled the Republican embrace of vigilanteism is no accident. In

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Speaker 1: his piece, Jammel Bowe goes on to air out several

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Speaker 1: high profile incidents that we have learned about since twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: when there were mass protests because of the killing of

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Speaker 1: George Floyd in broad daylight on video as Derek Chauvin

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Speaker 1: placed in ne on his neck and the other three

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Speaker 1: officers held him down until he took his last breath,

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Speaker 1: screaming for his mother. We all remember this because it

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Speaker 1: was probably one of the most depraved acts that we

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Speaker 1: collectively witnessed at the same time, in the same place,

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Speaker 1: because the majority of the world was on lockdown at

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Speaker 1: that time, and our attention was focused on our screens. Well,

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Speaker 1: following that inhumane, depraved act by Derek Chauvin, there have

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Speaker 1: been several incidents, some in twenty twenty and some more recently,

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Speaker 1: of acts of vigilanteism, oftentimes at the hands of white men,

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Speaker 1: white cis heteroman against those that they believe to be

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Speaker 1: less than to be undeserving of life. And you think

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Speaker 1: to yourself, how did we get to this place where

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Speaker 1: political violence, politically charge violence has become more and more

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Speaker 1: commonplace in this failing, backsliding democracy. Well, it began with

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Speaker 1: language that the far right in mainstream media, namely Fox

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Speaker 1: and Newsmax and others. Fox is considered mainstream, even though

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Speaker 1: Newsmax and Oaan are considered more far right. When they

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Speaker 1: started referring to their political opposition not as their quote

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Speaker 1: unquote friends from across the aisle, but instead they started

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Speaker 1: to refer to those people as the enemy. You can

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Speaker 1: go back to Sarah Palin, right back to those days

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Speaker 1: where Sarah Palin had placed her political foes on her

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Speaker 1: website in crosshairs. Crosshairs of what one can only assume

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Speaker 1: would be an AR fifteen or some type of sniper

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Speaker 1: weapon that uses a scope. After the shooting I believe

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Speaker 1: of a Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Arizona. She took that down.

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Speaker 1: But folks, the reality is is that the right has

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Speaker 1: consistently used the language steeped in and around war when

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Speaker 1: it comes to their political opponents. They have become, under

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the enemy of the state. They have been

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Speaker 1: called thugs and terrorists, all types of names, including most

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Speaker 1: recently groomers and pediphile, robbing people with progressive values, democrats,

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Speaker 1: and those that believe in equity and justice of their

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Speaker 1: humanity so that acts of violence and depravity against them

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Speaker 1: seem justified. Let me say that again, the right has

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Speaker 1: been using war like language to rob Democrats, progressives, liberals,

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Speaker 1: people who have a different ideological theory of change than

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Speaker 1: they do, and are using this language to rob these people.

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Speaker 1: Myself included you, included of our humanity as a way

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Speaker 1: to justify violence and depraved acts against us. This is

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Speaker 1: common in warfare right because it makes peaceeople easier to kill,

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Speaker 1: easier to harm. If I don't think about you as

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Speaker 1: having a family that loves you, or having parents, or

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Speaker 1: about you in the way that I think about myself

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Speaker 1: and I put distance between my humanity and yours. Then

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Speaker 1: I create the conditions where if I harm you, it's

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Speaker 1: justified and it doesn't really matter because you're not a

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Speaker 1: human being. You're this thing, this idea, this enemy that

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Speaker 1: I need to put down, and I am justified in

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Speaker 1: doing so. And we have watched this political rhetoric that

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Speaker 1: has been used by Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Green, Matt Gates,

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Speaker 1: members of Congress in the House and in the Senate,

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Speaker 1: against their colleagues. I want folks to understand that this

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Speaker 1: just par for the political course these days, right because

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump upended all of our political norms, including civility,

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Speaker 1: so much so that Paul Goser, right, shared a clip

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Speaker 1: an anime clip back in twenty twenty one. He's a

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Speaker 1: Republican from Aera Zona in an anime video killing a

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Speaker 1: So many people back in twenty twenty one, reacted to

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Speaker 1: this ninety two second video as saying it was despicable,

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Speaker 1: it was disgusting, it was violent, It should be condemned.

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Speaker 1: And ghosts are and his team and the Republicans told everyone,

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Speaker 1: we made an anime video. Everyone needs to relax. The

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Speaker 1: are not the future. It's a cartoon. This is what

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Speaker 1: was responded to the outrage by a spokesman for Ghoser's

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Speaker 1: campaign an office. You create a video that depicts the

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Speaker 1: murder of your colleague and everyone is supposed to laugh

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Speaker 1: that off. What planet are you living on? But we

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Speaker 1: of vigilanteism over the last few years, and it isn't

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Speaker 1: just a video that everyone should shrug off. It isn't

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Speaker 1: just a meme. It's Kyle Rittenhouse in twenty twenty in Kenosha, Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: where he decided to drive across state lines, leave his

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Speaker 1: protesters and injure a third case. It was looked upon

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Speaker 1: as what self defense. A seventeen year old white boy

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Speaker 1: go live out Paul Goser's real life fantasy and take

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Speaker 1: the lives of people who had the right by our

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Speaker 1: fucking constitution to assemble and protest their government, their law enforcement,

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Speaker 1: the killing of unarmed black people, and the neglect that

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Speaker 1: our law enforcement agencies and our government agencies had that

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Speaker 1: stopping this. What did the far right do with Kyle Rittenhouse, Well,

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Speaker 1: they turned him into a hero. He was hailed everywhere.

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Speaker 1: three years since the riots and subsequent shooting and Kenosha, Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: where a gunman, Kyle Rittenhouse, a seventeen year old from

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Speaker 1: nearby Anatok, Illinois, killed two protesters in what a court

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Speaker 1: eventually determined with self defense. Among the most troubling aspects

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Speaker 1: of the shooting was the almost jubilant reaction of conservative

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Speaker 1: media to the news that someone had taken the law

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Speaker 1: into his own hands and meted out lethal force. Tucker

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Speaker 1: Carlson praised written House as someone who decided to quote

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Speaker 1: said she wanted Rittenhouse quote as my president, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Speaker 1: Then a candidate called him end quote innocent child, and

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Speaker 1: Representative Thomas Macy of Conduck, Kentucky praised Rittenhouse for his

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Speaker 1: incredible restraint. Incredible restraint. You left your home state, you

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Speaker 1: armed yourself with a weapon of war to cross state

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Speaker 1: what incredible restraint? Oh and four bit Kyle Rittenhouse became

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Speaker 1: a celebrity of sorts right, getting a plumb speaking engagement

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Speaker 1: that's what the right does with murderers. They turned them

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Speaker 1: into heroes. Then there was the case of Mark and

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Speaker 1: to Daniel Penny, the twenty four year old assailant thug

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Speaker 1: who was also twenty four years old named Jordan Neely,

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Speaker 1: It took over a week of protests by New Yorkers

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Speaker 1: the governor who issued statements that were so thoughtless that

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Speaker 1: don't believe in vigilante is here in New York City,

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Speaker 1: they turned Jordan Nearly into the problem. Talked about mental

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Speaker 1: illness and the unhoused. Yeah, those are issues that we

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Speaker 1: should discuss. But being unhoused or mentally ill does not

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Speaker 1: make you worthless, does not make you unworthy of life.

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Speaker 1: If you can't take some people acting out on the train,

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Speaker 1: man turned himself in because you know, on that day

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Speaker 1: what white murderers get to do. Would somebody go home,

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Speaker 1: because since since spokes since he has been charged with manslaughter,

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Speaker 1: But since then, folks, an online fundraiser, has raised more

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Speaker 1: God is back. So he's now Ron DeSantis ron death

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Speaker 1: when I say to folks that the Republican Party is

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Speaker 1: supremacist institution holding up white Christo fascist values, this is

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Speaker 1: what the fuck I am talking about. This, This is

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Speaker 1: they think that there is more of a threat in

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Speaker 1: their colleagues to take action so that we don't have

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Speaker 1: Garrett Foster twenty eight at a Black Lives matter protests

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Speaker 1: in July of twenty twenty. Listen to what Perry did.

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Speaker 1: He'd been driving through downtown Austin when he encountered a

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Speaker 1: legal possession of a semi automatic rifle, was in the group.

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Speaker 1: When the demonstrators approached Perry's vehicle, he opened fire, killing Foster.

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Speaker 1: Perry claimed self defense, telling police that Foster pointed his

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Speaker 1: never raised his rifle at Perry. I want you to

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Speaker 1: get a better picture of who Gregory Abbott wanted to

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Speaker 1: Perry's extreme anger and fantasies of violence towards protesters. This

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Speaker 1: is a quote from Perry. I might have to kill

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Speaker 1: rioting outside my apartment complex. Might go to Dallas to

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Speaker 1: shoot looters. None of this, however, mattered, much like none

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Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's transgressions, sexual abuse, defamation, lies, tax evasion, fraud,

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Speaker 1: inciting an insurrection, stealing documents, None of that shit matters either,

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Speaker 1: because what they want. What Jamel Bowie says is that

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Speaker 1: there is an insatiable bloodlust that is growing inside of

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Speaker 1: and then to celebrate the ones that live out the

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Speaker 1: others have referred to Daniel Penny, who has now received

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Speaker 1: twenty five years in prison for the killing of Foster

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Speaker 1: in Texas. Rondescantis called him a good Samaritan. And this

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Speaker 1: is what Jamel Bowie reminds us. A good samaritan is

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Speaker 1: supposed to be. In his piece, the Republican embrace of

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Speaker 1: vigilanteism is no accident, he writes this. In American English,

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Speaker 1: the term good samaritan has come to mean any person

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Speaker 1: the story, a traveler is assaulted by thieves who rob

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Speaker 1: beat him and leave him for dead. Three people pass him.

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Speaker 1: The first, a priest, ignores him, the second, a levite,

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Speaker 1: also ignores him, but the third a Samaritan, binds his

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Speaker 1: wounds and helps him recover, asking for nothing in return.

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Speaker 1: This parable, he writes, found in the Gospel of Luke,

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Speaker 1: the hands of robbers, to which the questioner says, the

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Speaker 1: one who showed him mercy, giving full meaning to the story.

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Speaker 1: Jamel Bowie writes, do we think a modern day good

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Speaker 1: Samaritan would use lethal force or act as a vigilante

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Speaker 1: in defense of order? Probably not, But the idea that

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Speaker 1: he would, and that this is what it means to

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Speaker 1: act either ethically or responsibly, is evidence enough of a

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Speaker 1: sickness that festers into many American hearts. That is it

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Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends, on woke a f as

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Speaker 1: always power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fop