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When you are a person of color, sometimes you don’t want to think the color is affecting your life. Sometimes you want to hope that people are more focused on the person part of “person of color.” You want to believe, even though you know deep within your bones that you are without a doubt experiencing racism, that maybe you are just jumping to hysterical, historical conclusions.
— Aug 15, 2024 06:26PM
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Maria Vargas
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And no, being a Fox News watcher doesn’t automatically mean that you are a racist. But it can be a slippery slope, from wanting a smaller government to thinking that America’s first Black president was born in Kenya to not trusting any Black people whose names cause Tucker Carlson’s face to twist into the disgusted and confused rictus that has made him a millionaire.
Exactly!
— Aug 15, 2024 06:29PM
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Maria Vargas
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In that way, racism is not like a post-9/11 abandoned backpack. Because if you point out that you see a backpack sitting by itself in a subway train, and the authorities find out there was a bomb in that backpack, then you may end up a hero. But in America, if you say that you see racism, more often than not, it is only going to make your individual situation worse. Much, much worse.
— Aug 15, 2024 06:24PM
