Fascinating question
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Over the subsequent year, at least two different strangers tried to beat me up in Boston or people would randomly shout at me (“you should be in jail!” me: “I should be in math class”..)
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I could almost instantly tell whether someone got their news online, in newspapers, or on television, and which outlet it was, by how any given person spoke to me - which words they used - that year.
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Basically all of the Boston papers instantly attacked. Only
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Another thing that many/most people don’t know — when the call went in to the Boston State Police, it was that a “dark-skinned male” (was) “roaming the airport”. They were prepared to kill me on that basis.
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