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There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

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People with problems are not problem people.

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Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

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What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.

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Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it.

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Police violence against black women is very real.

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I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

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We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.

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To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

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When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as black. But race-neutral is just like flesh-tone Band-aids. It's not neutral; it's white.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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