“Second, the United States has never operated on merit. It wasn’t merit that yielded white leaders across every professional and political field, it was violence and forced inequality. It was the massacre of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a thriving community of Black people who had built up wealth and prosperity amongst themselves despite the barriers. It was ‘Separate but Equal,’ which legalized racial disparity in access and opportunity. It was redlining in urban communities across the nation, systematically denying Black citizens access to resources. The result of those policies and
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