A Meditation For Kendrick

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By Kia Turner ·Updated February 10, 2025

Reflecting on what we all witnessed last night during the Super Bowl Halftime Show, I kept recalling two scenes from Quentin Tarantino’s works: Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained. Of all movies, two movies by a white man who so frequently uses the “N” word in his works. There’s an iconic scene in Pulp Fiction where Samuel L. Jackson recites, “And I will strike down upon

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