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  With reference to "The Paranoid Style of American Policing," define the idea as the author does, and discuss your critique of the author's idea. What is the author's claim, in other words, and what is your idea about it? Why?
  "The Paranoid Style of American Policing" is an article by African American author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates (born September 30, 1975) originally published in The Atlantic on 30 December...

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  Summarize "The Paranoid Style Of American Policing."
  The essay "The Paranoid Style of American Policing" by Ta-Nehisi Coates first appeared in The Atlantic on December 30, 2015. It begins with an anecdote from Coates's childhood. When he was ten...

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  What is Coates trying to express about reparations and his views on reparations with this article? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/tanehisi-coates-reparations/427041/
  In this article, Ta-Nehisi Coates's main argument is that the conversation regarding reparations is necessary and that it ought to be part of the national dialogue. He argues that the era of...

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