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>> he got the details spot on. >> i just want to make sure the first volume plays out brooklyn and not queens. this statue was defaced of all weeks the week we are trying to get justice for the murder of george floyd. this is after five years in which hate crimes have gone way up. there were black protesters trying to desegregate a segregated beach. segregationist racists pushed them away and to some extent beat them up. that was 60 years ago. almost 60 years ago.

Ago now. he was a surprisingly modern guy. walt whitman used word like stuff in his poems. he said things like he/she in the time of the civil war. he wrote racy, sensual, scandalous stuff that even your best high school english teacher did not read to you in school. in school when you were lucky enough to get whitman, instead it is, greeting card stuff. like opening lines of when lilacs last in the door yard bloomed. but today of all days, kid the same guy, that same unnaturally modern guy writ...

Every other city in the country. aside from chicago, and l.a., and the rest of new york. brooklyn is huge. it has been huge for a very, very long time. starting way back in the 1830s, the great american poet walt whitman lived in brooklyn. he was born all most 200 years ago now. he was a surprisingly modern guy. walt whitman used word like stuff in his poems. he said things like he/she in the time of the civil war. he wrote racy, sensual, scandalous stuff that even your best high school english ...