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Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.

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When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

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If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

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If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

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Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.

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In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

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Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

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Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

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There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not.

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Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: October 4th, 1968

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