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All, American
2017
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Most people choose to ignore the challenges faced by places like Baltimore and Detroit. It’s easy imagine poverty, crime, disinvestment, systemic racism as “their” problems, not “our” problems. When you consider entire cities, people, and neighborhoods as someplace else, disconnected from your own daily life, it’s easy to write them off and justify maintaining the status quo.
Even well-intentioned journalists use language that allows their audience to ignore the deep-rooted systemic problems in our country.
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