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SHAUN KING: We need a 2020 version of the 1991 classic hip-hop track/video "Self Destruction"

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Shaun King
Feb 20, 2020
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In 1991, with Black and Brown communities all over the United States flooded with drugs and guns, local, state and federal governments conspired together to leash an all-out war on these communities. They later called it the "War on Drugs," but what we now know was that it was truly a war on people. Our communities were in an absolute state of emergency.

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