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country matters to you." how do you mean avoidance and what can we do about that? >> an example of avoidance would be when you hear people say, all lives matter in the response to black lives matter. obviously all lives matter but that's avoiding the issues. people say black lives matter specifically because we've lived in a country, where, particularly with regard to law enforcement, black lives have been treated as if they did not matter for years, and yet, when you come up with a slogan that says this, people pretend to this confusion that i, frankly, don't believe really exists. you have another example of this when people say that, oh, it's, you know, racism is on both sides, which is really kind of a silly thing to say if you have any understanding of how race works in this country. certainly there is no shortage of bigotry, you know, there's no group in this country that can claim to be free of bigotry, but when we talk about racism, we're talking about systemized