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All American Boy Prompt In the book All American Boys one of the characters in the book name Jill tells Quinn “I don’t think most people think they’re racist. But every time this happens, you could , like say, ‘not my problem’. You could say, ‘it’s a one-time thing’. Every time it happened.” I do agree with what she says, there a lot people that don’t think they're racist or says something that is offensive. For example had a friend during middle school and he would joke a lot but one time he say “are you going to clean my front yard the grass needs to be cut. When my friend said that I wanted to punch him for saying that an when I told that was offensive to me he didn’t care what I said. Another example, is when I was in my world history

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