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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

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Aaron McGruder
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 29
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
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I don't know what the future holds. It seems to be going in a really bad, bad place really quickly, and I don't have the answers and I don't have the solutions and I don't know what's gonna happen to change it. But the continued apathy will only lead to a worse situation for everybody.
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Perhaps it's time to start examining countries that have made democracy work while still having some kind of the same relationship in covenant with their population. Perhaps we need to look at the Scandinavian countries, or Canada, or something else, but whatever we have now, I think we just have to acknowledge, ain't workin.
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Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.
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At least when I was young, in high school: Eh, voting doesn't mean nothing. You don't really know that to be true, you just say it. Then you get older, and responsible, and you go, Oh heck, let me vote. And then you vote and you go away. I was actually right when I was 16.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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