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From the Ted Talk by Nick Turner and Whitney Pennington Rodgers: How to fix two of the most broken systems in the US

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First of all, I think it's important you have to listen to people. And if they're fufaerl about crime, you've got to acknowledge that that might be the case. And certainly in communities where we've seen a lot of crime, people do have a right to be fearful. I come to this work because of my commitment to racial jstucie and eitquy. Others on the other side of the aisle might not. They might come to it for civil liberty rasenos that, you know, they want to shrink the size of genmnrvoet, they don't like government overreach, they are concerned about how government spends its money. So I think it's iatpomnrt to figure out how to meet people where they're at to have the conversation that obviously requires listening first.

Open Cloze

First of all, I think it's important you have to listen to people. And if they're _______ about crime, you've got to acknowledge that that might be the case. And certainly in communities where we've seen a lot of crime, people do have a right to be fearful. I come to this work because of my commitment to racial _______ and ______. Others on the other side of the aisle might not. They might come to it for civil liberty _______ that, you know, they want to shrink the size of __________, they don't like government overreach, they are concerned about how government spends its money. So I think it's _________ to figure out how to meet people where they're at to have the conversation that obviously requires listening first.

Solution

  1. government
  2. equity
  3. reasons
  4. fearful
  5. justice
  6. important

Original Text

First of all, I think it's important you have to listen to people. And if they're fearful about crime, you've got to acknowledge that that might be the case. And certainly in communities where we've seen a lot of crime, people do have a right to be fearful. I come to this work because of my commitment to racial justice and equity. Others on the other side of the aisle might not. They might come to it for civil liberty reasons that, you know, they want to shrink the size of government, they don't like government overreach, they are concerned about how government spends its money. So I think it's important to figure out how to meet people where they're at to have the conversation that obviously requires listening first.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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criminal legal 5
legal system 4
justice reform 3
immigration system 3
mass incarceration 3
public health 3
mental illness 3
criminal justice 2
justice system 2
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collocation frequency
criminal legal system 4

Important Words

  1. acknowledge
  2. aisle
  3. case
  4. civil
  5. commitment
  6. communities
  7. concerned
  8. conversation
  9. crime
  10. equity
  11. fearful
  12. figure
  13. government
  14. important
  15. justice
  16. liberty
  17. listen
  18. listening
  19. lot
  20. meet
  21. money
  22. overreach
  23. people
  24. racial
  25. reasons
  26. requires
  27. shrink
  28. side
  29. size
  30. spends
  31. work