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Covington clash: Everyone’s got an opinion. Maybe that’s the problem.

“People who judge me based off one expression.... They’ve gone from there to … labeling me as a racist person, someone that’s disrespectful to adults – which, they’ve had to assume so many things to get there, without consulting anyone that

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