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Because We Want to Believe China Would Give Mugabe a Peace Prize

No, there is no such thing as a “China Response to the Nobel Peace Prize” that the People’s Republic this week willfully awarded Robert Mugabe. Despite this, the world’s heavyweight news outlets and commentators piled in this week with attention-grabbing …

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“My dad left us at a very young age and my mom didn’t know…

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“My dad left us at a very young age and my mom didn’t know English. We never had anyone to help us with our homework. My stepfather beat us every day. Sometimes he’d whip us with extension cords. When I was thirteen, I threw a brick at him and broke one of his ribs so I had to run away. I moved into a crack house where they let you sleep there if you helped sell drugs. I live in the shelter now. I’ve spent over twenty years of my life in prison. I want my son to have a different life than me, but I can’t even help him with his homework. I don’t know my times tables or anything.”