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From the Ted Talk by Christian Picciolini: My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement -- and how I got out

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Instead, I did compromise. I took myself off the steerts for the benefit of my family, because I was nervous that maybe I could go to jail or end up dead, and they would have to fend for themselves. So I stepped back as a leader, and instead I opened a rrceod store that I was going to sell white-power music in, of course, because I was iromptnig it in from epuroe. But I knew that if I was just a racist store selling racist music the community would not allow me to be there. So I decided I was going to also soctk the shelves with other music, like punk rock and heavy metal and hip-hop. And while the white-power music that I was selling was 75 percent of my gsros revenue, because people were driving in from all over the country to buy it from the only store that was selling it,

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Instead, I did compromise. I took myself off the _______ for the benefit of my family, because I was nervous that maybe I could go to jail or end up dead, and they would have to fend for themselves. So I stepped back as a leader, and instead I opened a ______ store that I was going to sell white-power music in, of course, because I was _________ it in from ______. But I knew that if I was just a racist store selling racist music the community would not allow me to be there. So I decided I was going to also _____ the shelves with other music, like punk rock and heavy metal and hip-hop. And while the white-power music that I was selling was 75 percent of my _____ revenue, because people were driving in from all over the country to buy it from the only store that was selling it,

Solution


  1. streets
  2. stock
  3. gross
  4. europe
  5. importing
  6. record

Original Text


Instead, I did compromise. I took myself off the streets for the benefit of my family, because I was nervous that maybe I could go to jail or end up dead, and they would have to fend for themselves. So I stepped back as a leader, and instead I opened a record store that I was going to sell white-power music in, of course, because I was importing it in from Europe. But I knew that if I was just a racist store selling racist music the community would not allow me to be there. So I decided I was going to also stock the shelves with other music, like punk rock and heavy metal and hip-hop. And while the white-power music that I was selling was 75 percent of my gross revenue, because people were driving in from all over the country to buy it from the only store that was selling it,

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
white supremacist 2
felt marginalized 2
completely neglecting 2
committed acts 2
racist music 2
young black 2


Important Words


  1. benefit
  2. buy
  3. community
  4. compromise
  5. country
  6. dead
  7. decided
  8. driving
  9. europe
  10. family
  11. fend
  12. gross
  13. heavy
  14. importing
  15. jail
  16. knew
  17. leader
  18. metal
  19. music
  20. nervous
  21. opened
  22. people
  23. percent
  24. punk
  25. racist
  26. record
  27. revenue
  28. rock
  29. sell
  30. selling
  31. shelves
  32. stepped
  33. stock
  34. store
  35. streets