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Black Americans Need To Make Progress
I disagree that Black Americans need to have a revolution to make progress. A revolution forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. I disagree because after the overthrowing of the government comes the work of replacing it. The real progress would be a personal revolution from behaviors that caused the need for a for a revolution.

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