In other words, rather than making it absolutely impossible for people of color to slip through, it makes it just hard enough that most of us cannot. That some of us do “make it” is not a testament to the willingness of white society to accept us but to our own often exceptional ability to navigate a rigged system. This is why people of color, and especially women of color, have to be at least twice as capable as white people in order to get half as far. The system was designed to make it as hard as possible for us but in such a way that white people can pretend the barriers simply do not
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