Meanwhile, Bill felt like he had to ingest everything he could to counter this jingoism suddenly ejaculating from his best friend’s mouth. His favorite album became Let’s Get Free by Dead Prez, while he checked off all the required reading of a young radical struggling to make sense of history and the social order: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Manufacturing Consent, A People’s History of the United States. The bug gestated, and when he began to see the way the world is—not the way the corporate media presented it, not the way his parents and teachers told it, not the way he wished it was so
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