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Fundie message to young people of color: thou shalt not master your domain
Do you remember Joycelyn Elders, the first black U.S. surgeon general, who served during the Clinton administration and stepped into a steaming pile of American Victorianism in regards to sexuality and safer sex? She was given the boot resigned after a brief 15 months: In 1994, she became a lightning…
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