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Have you guys ever gotten one of those Amber alerts on your phone?

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You know that notification you get when a child goes

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missing and thought I wish we could get

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these only for specific races Well

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in the state of California soon, you'll

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get exactly that. Let's talk about it

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straight into the news here. Here's a headline out of

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NBC News California just created

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the ebony alert to find missing black

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children If you're thinking this sounds an awful

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lot like segregation and preferential

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treatment, you'd be right. Let's continue California's

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newly enacted ebony alert law is

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the first of its kind in the nation to prioritize

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the search for black youth gone missing

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Governor Gavin Newsom

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signed Senate Bill 673 into

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law on Sunday making California the first

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state to create an alert notification system

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Similar to an amber alert to address

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the crises of missing black children and young

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women the law which will go into effect on January

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1st will allow the California Highway Patrol to

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activate the alert upon request from local law enforcement

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When a black youth goes missing in the area

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so much like the amber alert that notifies you

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to missing youths Below the age of 17 in

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your area or the silver alert that lets

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you know when senior citizens have gone missing This

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ebony alert is going to let you know when

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black people from the age of 12 to 25 go missing near

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you This ebony alert

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is going to utilize highway signs TV

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social media radio and many other mechanisms

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in order to let you know Information about missing

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black people now, you may be asking yourself. Why

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is this necessary? Well, let's get a little

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bit into the weeds here According to state senator

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Stephen Bradford quote data shows

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that black and brown our indigenous brothers

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and sisters when they go missing There's very rarely

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the type of media attention let alone amber

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alerts and police resources that we see

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with our white counterparts He goes on to say

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we feel it's well beyond time that we dedicate something

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specifically to help bring these young women and

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girls back home because

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because they're missed and loved just as much as

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their counterparts are. So in summary, they seem

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to have identified some sort of racial disparity

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when it comes to people going missing, and they

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believe that white people are getting more attention,

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more amber alerts, and that society just

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in general cares more when a white person goes

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missing. This is not a new narrative whatsoever.

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Many of you will remember the name Gabby Petito. Gabby

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was a young white girl who went missing in 2021, and

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this ended up in a frenzy

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of people trying to find her. There was wall-to-wall

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coverage, endless searching, and eventually

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it was discovered that she was killed by her boyfriend,

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Brian Laundrie. And it's hard to identify exactly

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why Gabby Petito's case got the coverage

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that it got. Maybe it's because people could specifically

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relate to Gabby Petito in some way. Maybe it's

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because her family was particularly vocal when

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it came to going to media. Maybe it's because we have a bunch

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of true crime fanatics in this country and this

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struck a chord with them. Maybe it's just chance and

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certain stories just catch a wave when

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it comes to media. There is a multitude of things that

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could be at play here, but many at the peak

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of Gabby Petito coverage came out and said

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that this was a classic case of missing

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white woman syndrome. Why not the same media

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attention when people of color go missing?

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Well, the answer actually has a name.

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Missing White Woman Syndrome.

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They spun the narrative that the only reason Gabby Petito's

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case was getting the coverage it got is because she's

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white, and that people care more about white

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people and specifically white women when they go

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missing. Now in general, I don't believe this to be true. For

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the most part on an individual basis, I believe we

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are living in a post-racial America where

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people truly don't care all that much about

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race. In my opinion, most of the racism narratives

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that are spun and injected into the culture

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of this country come from typically progressive

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people who refuse to let the narrative

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that this country is racist go. But let's for the

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sake of this discussion assume that what they're

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saying in this article is true, that there is

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a massive disparity amongst black

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and white people missing, and the reason that disparity

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exists is racism. The media

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and law enforcement and anybody behind the

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Amber Alert system simply don't care about

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black and brown people that go missing. Is

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the solution discrimination in the opposite

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direction? I view this similarly to how- view

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affirmative action, we can recognize that yes, there

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was a disparity in education when it came to

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comparing white and black and brown students.

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Do we then fix that disparity by giving preferential

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treatment to black and brown people? By letting them

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get a leg up on white people in their applications

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and in academia? Not in my opinion. We

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do not fix past discrimination with current

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discrimination. To me, a law like this

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is utterly ridiculous. What are we going to do down

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the line when we need alerts for other races? Are

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we going to create a white alert? Are we going to create an Asian

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alert? Are we just going to separate every single

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race in our country? And then why not take it

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further? Why not use other identity characteristics?

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Why not just give alerts for women? Why not

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just give alerts for bigger people? Why not just

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give alerts for those with disabilities? Do you see

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how maybe the solution is just taking

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every single case seriously and giving them

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the exact same treatment? What's even more interesting

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here is that there are many experts that are saying that the Amber

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Alert system isn't even an effective one. So

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now you've virtue signaled by creating an Ebony

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Alert system that's going to go into effect on January

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1st and it may not even fix the problem

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that you seem to have identified. And this is

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one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to

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some of the foundations of leftist

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belief in this country. There are many

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disparities that exist nationwide,

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worldwide, and yes, some of those disparities

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happen along the lines of race. But

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if you see these disparities and you immediately

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jump to the narrative of racism and discrimination,

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you are handicapping yourself when it comes to finding

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a solution. In the realm of missing people

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alone, I can identify a lot of different

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reasons why certain cases might get more

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coverage than others. How quick family members

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and members of the community are in alerting law

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enforcement to that missing person, which is pivotal

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when it comes to Amber Alerts. What media

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connections the family has and how quickly they're

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able to get their story covered. How

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loud and unwavering that family is about hounding journalists

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when it comes to getting their loved one stories covered. Money

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in class can play a huge factor when

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it comes to how many connections you have, who you can

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pay to cover your story, how much time you can take

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off work to be diligent in finding your loved

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one. And sadly, I hate to say this, the details

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surrounding the disappearance. can play a huge factor.

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In this true crime world that we now live in, some

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stories are just juicier than others,

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I guess, and more salacious, and that is what

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people like to hear about. None of this is good,

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none of this is justifiable. It's just to say

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that when you immediately jump to the narrative of racism,

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you're actually hindering yourself in finding

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a solution. Because there are many other things

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that could be at play, and there are many other things that

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are always at play, constantly in these

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cases. So congratulations to the state

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of California for creating a segregated

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alert system known as the Ebony Alert. I'm

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sure it's really going to solve the issue that you've identified.

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I think we all can agree that we want as many of these missing

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person's cases to be solved as possible,

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but race should not be at the forefront of our

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brains when it comes to this. The only logical

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way we should be using race in these cases

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is to identify the victim and

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the perpetrator, not to give preferential

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treatment to certain people and further segregate

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our society. We as a nation fought so hard to move

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ourselves out of a time of segregation. We

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started looking less at race and more at

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equality. So it breaks my heart to see us

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move back in the direction of segregation.

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This is not to invalidate some of the numbers that are given in

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this article. It's also not to invalidate the disparity

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that is seemingly identified here. It's just to

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say that this is not the solution. And as

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soon as we can all recognize that we need to reinvigorate

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the narrative of equality in this country

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rather than a narrative of equity, that will be

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when we've made true progress. But hey, those

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are just my thoughts. I would love to hear your thoughts

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on this new Ebony Alert system down in

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