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Western Movies At the Chinese supermarket, they were selling cowboy revolvers with holster very cheap they looked, and I tried one, but it was too light, I have never held a revolver but thought they must have some weight in the American city slums, black gangsters shoot not pointing but with the hand held flat, and they tend not to hit anything but a wall this his because they have seen this in a Tarantino movie. In my childhood, we watched Hopalong Cassidy he when opening a salon door chewed spearmint gum drugs was far from his mind. There is an institutional bias against black people I think when police the program is always showed someone black, and they get arrested for the banalness of crimes, like having a bit of marijuana in their pockets. But where poetry congregate the majorities are blacks this is not because they want to be there but little has been done to get them out of this mess, the slum and the gangs were they are, welcomed and can For a short time drive around in an expensive stolen car and feel like winners and throw money about, and not saving the loot. And out of crime private corrections centres make money

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