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You think public cross-burnings are depraved and evil.
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I think this definition works because it covers everything from cross-burnings and lynchings to the Weathermen bombings to the attack on the World Trade Center.
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You think public cross-burnings are depraved and evil.
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Lasting impressionThe 1930s Alabama of lynchings and cross-burnings made an impression on those in the audience, like the Harlem teenagers.
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LUNDEN: The 1930s Alabama of lynchings and cross-burnings made an impression on the Harlem teenagers, like Jamal Baugh, who found himself talking to some audience members after the show.
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That means a sheet, hood, and instructions on cross-burnings in his hispanic neighbors 'yards – along with black folks' yards.
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You think public cross-burnings are depraved and evil.
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LUNDEN: The 1930s Alabama of lynchings and cross-burnings made an impression on the Harlem teenagers, like Jamal Baugh, who found himself talking to some audience members after the show.
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The Ku Klux Klan began with cross-burnings that begat tar-and-feathering that begat lynching.
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The racist speech and emotionally violent gestures, such as cross-burnings, of white supremacists are routinely upheld as protected under the First Amendment.
Thane Rosenbaum: Ground Zero Mosque and the Freedom From Pain 2010
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