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Racial and Cultural

Guns and white supremacy: Regulating one won’t end the other

May 16, 2020August 12, 2019 by Samuel James
blurry man in shadows pointing a gun

Right quick: If you are looking to end white supremacy, regulating guns is not the answer. Yes, obviously, guns should be highly regulated, but white supremacy is not contingent on the legality of guns. If you could go back in time and erase guns from this country’s history, Black Wall Street would still be gone. …

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Categories Commentary, Racial and Cultural

From ‘Where are you from’ to ‘Go back where you came from’

August 11, 2019 by Shay

White America has always been very good about telling people they don’t belong, since before there was even a United States of America. Let’s face it: This country started with colonists and then expansionists telling the Indigenous People who had been here for millennia forming societies and mastering agriculture and art and more that they …

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Being made “not to belong”

July 29, 2019 by Moises Nunez

A couple of years ago, one Saturday night I was called—as I often was—by the security company that monitors my former school. As an administrator, specifically an administrator that lives less than five minutes away, I was the one they called when the alarm went off. It was never anything serious but I responded every …

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Categories Racial and Cultural, White folks 2 Comments
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