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Dr.Boyce let me tell you why your comments disgust me,a previous poster called you a poverty pimp,and I couldnt agree more you al sharpton,jesse,your time is up,you're the reason why we lack strong leadership in the AA community,you keep making excuses for irresponsible behaviour,by getting sensitive everytime bill cosby and eric holder tells the truth,the problem is you're trying to posture yourself as the next great leader of the AA community,and doing so the way the jesses of the world do by,not telling AA that is not all the white man's fault,and not take responsibility for your own lives and stop making bad choices,70% of AA children are born out of wedlock,to mostly absentee fathers and women who keep having babies by these deadbeats,I blame the women as well for our condition,what you and your kind do is jump up and defend this behaviour everytime,all your trying to do is make name for yourself by appealing to that segment of of community who want to keep making excuses for themselves,you appeal to their emotions instead of their intellect,the problem is you never see change coming because you're too busy being self promoting,you dont have to be middle class to see where hurting,AA are begginng to see that where suffering,and are tired of so called leaders who sugar coat the truth,too keep themselves in postions to be our leaders,we need strong men like Obama,and Bill Cosby to tell the truth.you donot have AA best interest at heart.I find it so insulting that you think Eric is trying to appeal to the middle class as if to say all AA wouldnt agree with the truth.

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I teach in a prison, now. For years I taught in South Pasadena, CA. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? How "Ivory Tower" can you be to deny the incredibly obvious absence of black men in the lives of their "baby ma-ma's" children. Yes, it does go back to slavery, but guys like you really do insult the integrity of GOOD black fathers by copping to the SAME-OLD-LITANY of white man domination. Who is President, by the way?

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"...AA are begginng to see that where suffering,and are tired of so called leaders who sugar coat the truth,too keep themselves in postions to be our leaders,we need strong men like Obama,and Bill Cosby to tell the truth." by salimah

....unless you have a gang of rodents eminating from the pores of your body, you can only speak for salimah.

President Barack "the Magic Negro" Obama, no good extending Miranda rights and U.S. Constitutional protections to terrorists/illegal immigrants U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and Bill Cosby are not idolized by the masses in the Black community!

President Barack Obama, Erica Holder, and/or others are worthless as worthless can get.

"James Bain Exonerated After 35 Years in Prison"......by K Burns

"......I am a white american WHO voted for Obama and it is the 21st century......"

...and "Black Code" Law Enforcement continues to exist in the 21st Century

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/575124/barack_the_magic_negro/

"Barack the Magic Negro lives in D.C., The L.A. Times, they called him that ‘Cause he’s not authentic like me. Yeah, the guy from the L.A. paper Said he makes guilty whites (The treasonous Black middleclass, liberal Caucasians, the Democratic Party of Slavery, Terrorists, Illegal and Undocumented immigrants, and/or others) feel good. They’ll vote for him, and not for me ‘Cause he’s not from the hood."

http://miikimike.blogtownhall.com/2009/11/01/it_is_not_the_people_who_are_the_problem!.thtml

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-217638

.....and misfits such as no good President Barack "the Magic Negro" Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Multiple members of the sellout Congressional Black Caucus, who are part of the problem!

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The "Hell" with no good President Barack "the Magic Negro" Obama and no good U.S. Attorney Eric Holder!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-182700

http://miikimike.blogtownhall.com/2009/11/20/president_obama_is_unfit_to_condemn_law_abiding_us_born_black_men,_etc.thtml

Congressional Candidate Lieutenant Colonel Allen West is truly worthy of respect. He truly means what he says and says what he means, which can be said for no good President Barack Obama, who doesn't have a clue to meaning of what means to be a U.S. citizen and/or the essence of the truly honoring his oath of office.

The people rule, and not Depots or Tyrants such as the "annointed" President "the Magic Negro" Obama, and other misfits, who are not fit condemn any U.S. born inner-city Black man, woman, and/or their siblings.

Thank you, Colonel Allen West, you have made my day.

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Attorney General Eric Holder Gets on Black Fathers: Why He is Wrong

1) One in three black men in their twenties is under some form of supervision by the justice system. It's tough to be a dad when you live in a nation that has adopted mass incarceration of black men as the way to get cheap labor. Then, for those men who try to reintegrate in to society, there are hurdles to employment and education that Holder and others have yet to remedy. A man can't take care of his family if he is in prison, and it's difficult for him to feed his family if no one will hire him. If you want to solve many of the parenting problems, you can start by not putting so many fathers in the penitentiary, especially those guilty of non-violent offenses or who've been convicted because they could not get adequate legal counsel. By the way, it may help to give them rehabilitation options while they are incarcerated, rather than simply punishing them.

2) Attorney Holder, did you also know that black male unemployment is as high as 40 percent to 50 percent in many urban areas? What do you think whites would do to you if they were facing 40 percent unemployment and had to hear you give them a speech about personal responsibility? If whites are screaming about 10 percent unemployment, how would they respond to the unemployment rates experienced by our community?

3) Mr. Holder, can you please take a visit to your buddy Barack Obama and let him know that the inner-city educational systems put black boys in special education at a rate that is five times higher than white kids? Please also explain to the president that many of these young men are not being taught to read and are being pushed out in to an economic system with few opportunities, leading them right to the penitentiaries. I am not sure how much time Columbia University (where Holder attended law school, like the rest of his Ivy League chums) spends teaching about the school-to-prison pipeline, but he might want to read up on it.


4) Oh yeah, Mr. Holder, with all due respect, there are quite a few white absentee fathers also. The divorce rate in white America is more than 50 percent, which means that, technically, half of all white dads are not in the homes with their kids. The next time you go speak to a group of white Americans, I dare you to give the same speech you're giving in African American churches. White folks aren't so quick to allow a black man to come in to their churches to tell them that they are screwed up and that the government (for which they pay taxes) has no responsibility in helping with their plight. For some reason, black people are very good at beating up on themselves.

5) Mr. Holder, just in case you and President Obama are unaware, there's usually a woman involved in most heterosexual relationships. Do you think it might be possible that some men are excluded from the lives of their children by the child's mother, or have we decided to simply follow the trend and blame the black male for every single one of society's ills? When specifically addressing the break down of the black family, we may want to move past the "black man musta done it" model of analysis. There are thousands of black men across America who've been estranged from their children by mothers who've become overbearing in the management of their children's lives. This is not to say that all mothers are in the wrong, but we all know that both women and men are not perfect.

....and thank you for this thread, Dr. Watkins....

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-278743

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-279762

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-47988

In addition....

If You Succeed Inner-City Black Man, Woman, or Child, You Deserve a Medal of Honor, Valor, a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, an Honorary Doctorate....

..... because it is quite an accomplishment to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps to succeed and make something of yourself in inner-city Black America, for life in the 'Hood' can be quite perverted to say the least!

Normal institutions of government that truly function in other communities are a colossal failure, free enterprise is virtually non-existent, the larger than life real criminal element walk free, the book of criminal prosecution is reserved for low level criminals, far too often the innocent end up behind bars, accused and punished, fined and criminally, indicted without just cause, are maimed or killed by rogue police officers, and some of our own so-called university educated lawyers, and judges are directly and/or indirectly responsible for this miscarriage of justice.

The community of the inner-city, the so-called university educated of middle, upper-middle, and the affluent class of Black America are apathetic, and sometimes contribute to this perverted activity through their own incompetence.

(Los Angeles Superior Court Cases #C895188, #BS111697, and #BC385899). Furthermore, the so-called well connected university educated Black middleclass within the Black community will defend and support the right to gainful employment for felonious criminal illegal immigrants, will promote a hypocrite, while kicking to the curb the right to gainful employment, the right to "Equal Justice and Protection Under the Law", "Due Process", other Federal and State mandated U.S. Constitutional Protections, of truly law abiding U.S. born Black men and women who have served this nation honorably in the U.S. military. (Los Angeles Superior Court Cases #C895188, #BS111697, and #BC385899)

Heck, incompetent Black probation officers have placed minors, including infants, on probation in Los Angeles County. University educated Black social workers have contributed to the destruction of the traditional Black family structure, by breaking up two parent families, without legal authority, where neither parent nor any child has been proven to be criminal, insane, incorrigible, and/or incompetent in any court jurisdiction within the United States of America. (Los Angeles Superior Court Case #C895188)

In regards to the so-called Christian Community of Black America, lack of genuine Christian thought and action are nonexistent for the ministers, far too often, are only concerned about number one, the various church congregations contribute tidings to support these greedy, jack-leg, poverty pimping preachers, beyond belief, and the churches have become huge arenas to increase the size of gate receipts.

The churches of Black America, may very well lose their tax exempt status, for the many churches of inner-city Black America function like banking institutions, for the benefit of a few, at the expense of those who contribute their hard earned tidings, and this violates the very reason for tax exemption status.

The church is exempt from taxation, solely for the purpose of uplifting its' people, meaning U.S. born Black people in this instance. The so-called civil rights organizations do more harm than good, in that they too, have failed to truly represent truly law abiding Black people, who are U.S. citizens by birthright, who have legitimate causes, claims, etc.

The self-serving elitist inner-city elected leadership of Black America do not serve inner-city Black America at all, and many times these so-called elected leaders play games, use false pretenses to hold elected office, and pimp the community, just like the jack-leg sacrilegious preachers. The actions of the policing authorities and court officers (judges, public defenders, city attorneys) take advantage of this golden opportunity afforded them, due to lack of true representation in our community, and many times blanket Black people, who are U.S. citizens by birthright, as the criminal element...

......with or without valid evidence. Far too many individuals from our own legal community be it a civil, criminal, and/or public defender attorney, who are also Black like you and I, will side with the opposition, rather than competently represent law abiding Black U.S. citizens, and/or others who, or whom, have been violated by very serious atrocities of government, have been falsely accused, and/or illegally incarcerated.

(Los Angeles Superior Court Cases #C895188, #BS111697, and #BC385899) Even the journalism community of Black America (for instance the Los Angeles Sentinel, which claims to be 'The Largest Black Owned Newspaper in the West) prints falsehoods about U.S. citizens of Black American heritage, with prior knowledge of the truth. On the topic of the pseudo civil rights organizations, such as the NAACP, which should now be named the national association for the advancement of certain people instead of the national association for the advancement of colored people, for the former description surely fits.

Any Black man, woman, or child resident within the "Hood", who is a U.S. citizen by birthright, who makes something of his/her self, in spite of all the shortcomings of inner-city Black America, deserves a medal of valor, a medal of honor, the Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and an Honorary Doctorate, just for making it out of inner-city Black America alive and/or unscathed, in view of all the negatives of living in the 'Hood'.

If we as Black people, who are U.S. citizens by birthright, are to have any future at all, here in the United States, we all must roll up our sleeves and really take an active part in changing this picture, for the future posterity of Black America rests on what each one of us do today, to make inner-city Black America, and/or any other similar economically deprived and misrepresented community predominated by Black people, a better place to live.

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Most of the absentee black father or in jail, under 18 years of age, or dead. Noone had gone into the prisons and tried to reunite those men with their kids. some are hundreds of miles away in prisons where their children can't even visit. sure they did a crime and are doing their time but their children are suffering. ie a 4yrs old boy grabs a beer and steals a dress ther under a neighbors tree why? "he wanted to go to jail to be with his father" he was put in jail for stealing while drunk. Can we get the gov't to visit the ideal of prisoners family counseling with their kids? three things can happen one, the kids will understand the absence two, the father can convience the kids they don't want to end up there and 3 they can form a relationship and be in their children lives with visits and letters and video,let the prison set up web cams supervised visits.

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"......I am a white american WHO voted for Obama and it is the 21st century......" by K Burns

http://home.gwu.edu/~jjhawkin/BlackCodes/BlackCodes.htm

...and "Black Code" Law Enforcement continues to exist in the 21st Century

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/575124/barack_the_magic_negro/

"Barack the Magic Negro lives in D.C., The L.A. Times, they called him that ‘Cause he’s not authentic like me. Yeah, the guy from the L.A. paper Said he makes guilty whites (The treasonous Black middleclass, liberal Caucasians, the Democratic Party of Slavery, Terrorists, Illegal and Undocumented immigrants, subversive anti-U.S. organizations and individuals, a misguided Black electorate and/or others) feel good. They’ll vote for him, and not for me ‘Cause he’s not from the hood."

http://miikimike.blogtownhall.com/2009/11/13/constitutional_protections_for_terrorists,_known_enemies_of_the_us,_illegal_immigrants.thtml

Constitutional Protections for Terrorists, Known Enemies of the U.S., Illegal Immigrants???????????

The height of perversion and blatantly illegal/unethical policy, that is truly un-American is to promote or mandate Constitutional Protections, Expanded Right to Work/Gainful Employment Opportunity, Supportive Family Services, U.S. Taxpayer Financed Government Benefits, for known foreign terrorists, enemies of the United States, and illegal or undocumented immigrants......

....... and practice No mandate or Regard for Constitutional Protections of Law Abiding U.S. Citizens, specifically law abiding U.S. born Black men, women, many of who have served this nation honorably as honorably discharged combat war Veterans of foreign wars, as truly law abiding productive U.S. citizens, and/or the law abiding U.S. born siblings.

Attorney General Eric Holder promotes Constitutional Protections for known terrorists and enemies of the United States, and/or illegal immigrants, meaning individuals who do not belong here, or who are not entitled to Constitutional Protections....

"I stand here today as someone whose own life was made possible by these documents. My father came to these shores in search of the promise that they offered. My mother made me rise before dawn to learn their truths when I lived as a child in a foreign land. My own American journey was paved by generations of citizens who gave meaning to those simple words -- "to form a more perfect union." I've studied the Constitution as a student, I've taught it as a teacher, I've been bound by it as a lawyer and a legislator. I took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief, and as a citizen, I know that we must never, ever, turn our back on its enduring principles for expedience sake." by President Obama

.....Typically contemporary elected Black leaders, and/or the typical no good Black middleclass, Such as President Barack "the Magic Negro Obama, 2nd District Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, Congresswomen Diane Watson, the Democratic Party being the Party of Slavery, and/or others, bend over backwards to betray the Black community, instead of truly honoring his, her, or their sworn and mandated by law oath of office!

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"Most of the absentee black father or in jail, under 18 years of age, or dead. Noone had gone into the prisons and tried to reunite those men with their kids. some are hundreds of miles away in prisons where their children can't even visit. sure they did a crime and are doing their time but their children are suffering. ie a 4yrs old boy grabs a beer and steals a dress ther under a neighbors tree why? "he wanted to go to jail to be with his father" he was put in jail for stealing while drunk. Can we get the gov't to visit the ideal of prisoners family counseling with their kids? three things can happen one, the kids will understand the absence two, the father can convience the kids they don't want to end up there and 3 they can form a relationship and be in their children lives with visits and letters and video,let the prison set up web cams supervised visits." by Amanda

.....High penal incarceration rates are not confined to inner-city Black men, because the same can be said for inner-city Black women.

In many instances both parents are behind bars, etc., etc., and their siblings because foster children, wards of the State, etc., etc.

http://www.youngchicagoauthors.org/girlspeak/2008/features/women_incarceration.html

"Why are So Many Women Going to Jail?

Being a woman of color, it saddens me that African American women account for so much of the prison population. Women imprisonment rates have significantly increased over the past fifteen years. There are many contributing factors to this increase, such as characteristics of female prisoners (i.e., types of offences committed, age and indigenous status) In order to understand why so many women are being imprisoned you must understand the status of women in our society. Mental illness, homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, and illiteracy are often mistaken for crimes, but they are problems that effect many women. Prisons don't make problems disappear, they make people disappear, and affluent communities believe that the imprisonments of people that are less fortunate are solving social problems.
More than two million people are locked up in U.S. prisons or jails. Over seventy percent of the imprisoned populations are people of color. The fastest growing groups of prisoners are women of color, and the increase in the rate of female incarceration is due a change in the age of these women ranging from 19-25. It is known that women tend to commit less serious types of offenses than men, but they are more likely to reoffend. Women are less inclined to commit crime than men.
Other contributing factors to the increase of female incarceration are poverty, frequency of abuse, deinstitutionalization of mental health care, and the increase of drug related offenses prosecuted against women. Women's crimes are often defined as sexual, and are often given a double standard. Most women in correctional facilities say they have children under the age of seventeen. Also a vast majority of these women claim to have had incomes of less than six hundred dollars per month." by Tahonee Washington

....Prison incarceration cuts both ways. "Also a vast majority of these women claim to have had incomes of less than six hundred dollars per month"
http://miikimike.blogtownhall.com/2009/12/18/president_barack_obama,_us_attorney_eric_holder,_multiple_members_of_the_congressional_black_caucus_are_just_unfit_for_office.thtml
Improving the economic conditions within the Black community would be the most important factor of preventing and reducing penal incarceration, and/or keeping Black families intact.
The unemployment rate of Black men and women is the highest of all. President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Congressional Black Caucus, etc., etc., are not addressing this, and/or making for policy to promote private business development in our community.
The Black community has been in a "Depression" decades prior to our current economic recession. .

http://ceyseau.net/Specifics.html

President Barack Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus, and/or individuals in policy making positions, could care less about this, and it shows, big time. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and/or other so-called Black attorneys are not blazing the trail to protect the Constitutional Rights of truly innocent Black men, and women egregiously violated by government.

Civil redress for the wrongs of government can return millions of dollars earned dollars, assets to the Black community, assets that are in dire need in our community. Here again, that is the nature of the Black middleclass, namely protecting the interests of every other community but the Black community!

It is foolish to even think that the problems of the Black community can be resolved without creating privately financed lawful gainful employment work opportunity for Black men and women.

Only a few are going to be star athletes. The Government is not going to employ the masses of U.S. born Black men and women, eligible and who can be gainfully employed. Heck the government should not be in the business of competing with free enterprise ventures anyway. Less government influence works best.

In private business, Caucasians, Hispanics, Filipinos, Koreans, etc., etc., tend to hire their own first, before making it possible for Black men, and women to be gainfully employed.

This is not to infer, say, etc., that these individuals won't hire Black men, Black women, because they do on occasion, but rather just as in nature "Birds of a Feather Flock Together", to which more times than not, these individuals take risks, chances for their own, first and foremost.

Here again, is where our own elected Black leadership, business persons, organizations, representatives, civil lawyers, have failed....

......failed in that many times our own elected Black leaders and/or others in positions of responsibility block and impede the economic growth of the Black community.

I'm willing to bet my last dollar, that improving the economic conditions within the "inner-city/Black community to promote the growth of free enterprise to reduce high unemployment in the Black community, will keep more Black families together, lower the high unemployment rate and penal incarceration rate of U.S. born Black men and women!

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http://www.youngchicagoauthors.org/girlspeak/2008/features/women_incarceration.html

"Why are So Many Women Going to Jail?

Being a woman of color, it saddens me that African American women account for so much of the prison population. Women imprisonment rates have significantly increased over the past fifteen years. There are many contributing factors to this increase, such as characteristics of female prisoners (i.e., types of offences committed, age and indigenous status) In order to understand why so many women are being imprisoned you must understand the status of women in our society. Mental illness, homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, and illiteracy are often mistaken for crimes, but they are problems that effect many women. Prisons don't make problems disappear, they make people disappear, and affluent communities believe that the imprisonments of people that are less fortunate are solving social problems.
More than two million people are locked up in U.S. prisons or jails. Over seventy percent of the imprisoned populations are people of color. The fastest growing groups of prisoners are women of color, and the increase in the rate of female incarceration is due a change in the age of these women ranging from 19-25. It is known that women tend to commit less serious types of offenses than men, but they are more likely to reoffend. Women are less inclined to commit crime than men.
Other contributing factors to the increase of female incarceration are poverty, frequency of abuse, deinstitutionalization of mental health care, and the increase of drug related offenses prosecuted against women. Women's crimes are often defined as sexual, and are often given a double standard. Most women in correctional facilities say they have children under the age of seventeen. Also a vast majority of these women claim to have had incomes of less than six hundred dollars per month." by Tahonee Washington

....Prison incarceration cuts both ways.

"Also a vast majority of these women claim to have had incomes of less than six hundred dollars per month"

http://miikimike.blogtownhall.com/2009/12/18/president_barack_obama,_us_attorney_eric_holder,_multiple_members_of_the_congressional_black_caucus_are_just_unfit_for_office.thtml

Improving the economic conditions within the Black community would be the most important factor of preventing and reducing penal incarceration, and/or keeping Black families intact.

The unemployment rate of Black men and women is the highest of all. President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Congressional Black Caucus, etc., etc., are not addressing this, and/or making for policy to promote private business development in our community.

The Black community has been in a "Depression" decades prior to our current economic recession.

http://ceyseau.net/Specifics.html

President Barack Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus, and/or individuals in policy making positions, could care less about this, and it shows, big time. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and/or other so-called Black attorneys are not blazing the trail to protect the Constitutional Rights of truly innocent Black men, and women egregiously violated by government.

Civil redress for the wrongs of government can return millions of dollars, earned dollars and equivalent assets to the Black community, assets that are in dire need in our community.

Here again, that is the nature of the Black middleclass, namely protecting the interests of every other community but the Black community!

It is foolish to even think that the problems of the Black community can be resolved without creating privately financed lawful gainful employment work opportunity for Black men and women.

Only a few are going to be star athletes. The Government is not going to employ the masses of U.S. born Black men and women, eligible and who can be gainfully employed.

Heck the government should not be in the business of competing with free enterprise ventures anyway. Less government influence works best.

In private business, Caucasians, Hispanics, Filipinos, Koreans, etc., etc., tend to hire their own first, before making it possible for Black men, and women to be gainfully employed.

This is not to infer, say, etc., that these individuals won't hire Black men, Black women, because they do on occasion, but rather just as in nature "Birds of a Feather Flock Together", to which more times than not, these individuals take risks, chances for their own, first and foremost.

Here again, is where our own elected Black leadership, business persons, organizations, representatives, civil lawyers, have failed....

......failed in that many times our own elected Black leaders and/or others in positions of responsibility block and impede the economic growth of the Black community.

I'm willing to bet my last dollar, that improving the economic conditions within the "inner-city/Black community to promote the growth of free enterprise to reduce high unemployment in the Black community, will keep more Black families together, lower the high unemployment rate and penal incarceration rate of U.S. born Black men and women!

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"do you normal people notice when they have no defense its all of a sudden(american born black men) insted of african americans?there not from africa now.you peoples free ride is about over around america we are making sure of it where i live." by bajolips

Can't say I'm African, because be it yours truly, or multiple generations of my family and relatives, we are all U.S. born citizens....

....although I'm also descendant of "slavery", I'm Black and not African.

It would be of no benefit to any U.S. citizen born on U.S. soil, to claim that he or she is an African citizen.....

......because believe it or not U.S. citizenship means a great deal. This is why so many immigrants will face death, the forces of nature, and beyond, just to set foot on U.S. soil, in hope of becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Our elected Black leaders do not place value in U.S. citizenship and U.S. citizenship Constitutional protections which is the primary cause of the demise of U.S. born Black men, women, and/or their siblings.

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