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Last published Wed, Feb 24, 2021
Overtime, minorities have dealt with discrimination over the decades and even in present day, race issues boil under(and above)the surface. A young woman who's son was involved in gang violence as a kid was killed by police for "loitering" later in his teenage years. She is made numb to it all, and falls into a depression, a few weeks later she meets a man and they become romantically involved. She tells him about her son and he in response shares a secret of his own. The secret transforms into an entire world of opportunity for the unspeakable..Perhaps, a revolution.
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