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<title><![CDATA[Derecka Purnell - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/39975.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Derecka Purnell]]></description><category domain="39975">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Backtracking on 'Woke 1' Puts Organizers at Risk]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/13/aoc-mamdani-defund-police-prisons</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derecka Purnell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kanye West Keeps Moving Further to the Right. Why?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/14/kanye-west-keeps-moving-further-and-further-to-the-right-why</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derecka Purnell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The more wealth Ye acquired, the more he moved right. Is his billionaire status to blame?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Missing White Woman Syndrome' Still Plagues America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/29/the-missing-white-woman-syndrome-still-plagues-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derecka Purnell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Black people go missing, police and mainstream outlets do very little, if anything, to recover them]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chauvin's Conviction Isn't Enough. We Want to Live]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/21/derek-chauvin-conviction-limits-george-floyd-death</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derecka Purnell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We cannot expect police convictions to save anyone's lives, because they didn't even save George Floyd's life]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How I Became a Police Abolitionist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-i-became-a-police-abolitionist/ar-BB16o0Z5</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derecka Purnell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When people dismiss abolitionists for not caring about victims or safety, they tend to forget that we are those victims, those survivors of violence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black People--All People--Deserve Better Than Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/22/black-americans-joe-biden-democratic-party-relationship</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derecka Purnell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An offensive comment by the Democratic presidential candidate is a reminder that black people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' all people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' deserve better than Joe Biden]]></description>
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