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Just because it’s going to be a dumpster fireGQ talked to five voters who have somehow managed not to decide which is worse, Trump or Clinton. Anonymous “Politics reporter, 42, Washington, D.C.:
… Read the restI’ve struggled with this the entire election season. Some days I’m really tortured by it, and some days it’s, like, laughable. But I’ve never really felt this way as an adult human. And it’s really—it’s messing with me.
I cannot stomach Hillary Clinton. I just can’t get with her. Maybe because I know too much. I find so much of her world hypocritical, reprehensible. I think the rest of the country sort of gives her a pass, like, “Oh, she’s always been attacked by Republicans, it’s not that big a deal, email shmemail!” But I’m like,
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Stopping Olukoya and Witch hunting in UK Black Communities
By Leo Igwe, September 6, 2016 Vulnerable members of the African migrant communities in the UK, particularly children, are at risk of being tortured and murdered by relatives who accuse them of witchcraft.
By Leo Igwe, August 11, 2016 By subsidizing the pilgrimages of Christians and Muslims, the state has invariably adopted Islam and Christianity as state religions.
By Leo Igwe, July 23, 2016 Accusations of witchcraft are wreaking havoc in the lives of people across the region, among the educated and the non-educated, in families and communities, in rural and urban areas even as we are meeting here today.
By Bruce Gorton, July 8, 2016 Bullets should not be deployed against someone armed with Skittles.
By Leo Igwe, July 6, 2016 African youths are socialized in ways that do not allow them to think outside religious boxes. They grow up caged and mentally trapped in the cave of dogma, ignorance and superstition.
By Leo Igwe, July 3, 2016 In Nigeria, presidents from the two main religions seem to be taking turns in giving a religious character to statehouse activities.
By Leo Igwe, June 17, 2016 "The main drive for my unbelief was the bible itself. I found it to be misogynist, racist, homophobic and backward."
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