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I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

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Amandla Stenberg
Age: 26
Born: 1998
Born: October 23
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Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
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