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\"Stokleys<\/a>
\nStokley the cat in his Staten Island home, c. 2004. And yes, that is who I named him after, and it was supposed to be respectful, though it is hard when I have to get him off the kitchen counter. Apart from that I remain as big a fan of the late Kwame Toure as a pasty white man could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stokley the cat in his Staten Island home, c. 2004. And yes, that is who I named him after, and it was supposed to be respectful, though it is hard when I have to get him off the kitchen counter.…<\/p>\n

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