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Forty-nine years ago today the government shot down two student protesters and two random passers-by, and the American people mostly sided with the government. #KentState

Eleven days later at Jackson State in Mississippi cops fired 150 shots at a dorm building near where black students had been protesting, killing 2 and wounding 11. The country barely noticed.

The road is long and the road is hard.

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