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Recognizing Shylock’s Humanity in The Merchant of Venice
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Recognizing Shylock’s Humanity in The Merchant of Venice

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“I don’t have to condone it to understand it. The pain that people feel is real.”   While most watched DeRay McKesson, Baltimore native and #blacklivesmatter activist, deliver these words in April 2015 (describing the unrest that occurred shortly after…