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"Racism is as American as baseball"
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Interesting
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I wonder what @dcallamerican thinks?
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Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity'
A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.
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On Live TV, Guardian Angels Tackle Man Sliwa Misidentified as Migrant
“We’ve got to take back 42nd Street,” Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the anti-crime group, said on “Hannity” as the Guardian Angels pushed a man to the ground.
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Thanks! Gonna read on this hike
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But my question when this news FIRST broke was how/why was this info allowed to be released NOW? It couldn't have been a new discovery. -
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This is exactly why, even when I know, I’ll pretend to be absolutely clueless about white pop culture around white ppl.
Them: “You didn’t watch Friends growing up?!!”
Me: “I don’t think so…wait is that the one with the crazy Kramer guy??”
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"This is the most offensive **** i've ever seen". Please relax.
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Are we really REQUIRED to know about them or do we THINK we have to know about them to get ahead.
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Mf said T-Pain 
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My pops be getting friends and Seinfeld confused
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Yeah they use cultural stuff to bar people from things all the time and describe it as chemistry or intelligence etc.
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My “cultural appropriation” fit.
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It's the golden doodles for me. I already know what type of time mfs be on when I see they have one. The type to claim they want social justice but put their kids in private school to avoid minorities in public schools cuz it's beneath them
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Black America as canary in coal mine of democracy — Harvard Gazette
Panel sees peril ahead, points to rise in white supremacy, birtherism, erosion of voting rights, attacks on teaching about race, gender.
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“I think for us to pretend like Black people’s role in pursuing a more expansive democracy is not, at root, behind [these developments] is to kid ourselves,” said Muhammad, the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race & Public Policy at HKS and director of the Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project.
“It is not the case, in my opinion, that this country has ever been able to accept en masse the role of Black people included in this democracy at a scale that would not fundamentally threaten what America thinks of itself,” Muhammad said.“For about 45 years, we have assumed that we have made huge progress in this country. And it turns out, about two-thirds of that progress can be explained by the fact that we don’t count the people that we incarcerate.”
Sandra Susan Smith
While there has been some progress made to improve the lives of Black Americans, it is often overstated, said sociologist Sandra Susan Smith, Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice and director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at HKS.
“For about 45 years, we have assumed that we have made huge progress in this country. And it turns out, about two-thirds of that progress can be explained by the fact that we don’t count the people that we incarcerate,” Smith said.
“Much of it has been a mirage because we essentially warehoused a significant percentage of people on the low end and then said, ‘Look at how great they’re doing!’ Now, put those folks back in, and all of a sudden, you’re kind of looking like 1972 again,” said Smith, who is also faculty director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management.
“Time and time again … the policies that are supposed to lead to closing or the elimination of disparities often benefit white folks more than they do the people who are supposed to be benefiting from them,” said Smith. “And that speaks to a culture that privileges whiteness.”
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