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And because the lynching episode it recalls was perpetrated by two white men against a third white man, it gobbles up convenient assumptions about “us” versus “them.”

There can be the assumption that to be Deaf is to be disconnected from music, or that the experience of sound must be diminished, lesser or incomplete.

She also makes the assumption that Carina is not a “full pay” family.

Twining said he and his wife have been accosted in a restaurant and at the grocery store over his presence at the vigil and the incorrect assumption that he’s supportive of white nationalists.

Mrs Goddard, from Lincoln, stressed this showed her half-brother was thinking clearly and warned against assumptions that he was "drunk and fell off the boat".

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