People of color being poisonous to other POC—the L.A. City Council and anti-Black bias

racially vague person in soft focus presenting a dismissive hand gesture

“Not all skinfolk are kinfolk” is a reasonably common refrain in Black circles when Black people perpetuate harmful stereotypes or ally themselves with clearly anti-Black—and, frankly, anti-progress in general—forces in politics and elsewhere in society. But it’s applicable to not just Black people but other people of color, who too often eagerly put their own …

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