American democracy can die and ignorance will slay it – Brando Simeo Starkey / The Undefeated

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Think back to the 2008 or 2012 presidential campaigns. Now pretend we discovered President Barack Obama’s voters of color had been endlessly sharing obviously apocryphal stories relevant to the election yet they still believed them anyway. We undoubtedly would have held national conversations, rife with racial overtones, about these easily-duped Americans.

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