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After high school, I earned a scholarship to play Division I soccer at a small school in North Carolina, but I didn't get much playing time, which forced me to determine who I was beyond the field, something I had previously never had to do.

~Clint Smith

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While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research demonstrates that young people in general, regardless of their background, experience profound benefits from attending integrated schools.

~Clint Smith

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Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Acknowledge Commit Country Creating Enforcing Inequality Injustice Largest Laws Lever Means Mobility Open Past Possibility Reducing Schools Single Up Using

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The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private prisons.

~Clint Smith

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Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.

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When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.

~Clint Smith

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Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.

~Clint Smith

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Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.

~Clint Smith

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When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over and over again, the very act of waking up to a world complicit in your distress can feel like a herculean task. But black people are human beings, just like everyone else.

~Clint Smith

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Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces where learning can be both cultivated and encouraged.

~Clint Smith

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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