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So You Want to Talk About Race
But so much of what we think and feel about people of other races is dictated by our system, and not our hearts. Who we see as successful, who has access to that success, who we see as scary, what traits we value in society, who we see as “smart” and “beautiful”—these perceptions are determined by our proximity to the cultural values of the majorit
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Keely Adler added 8mo ago
We are all products of a racialized society, and it affects everything we bring to our interactions.
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Keely Adler added 8mo ago
There are very few hardships out there that hit only people of color and not white people, but there are a lot of hardships that hit people of color a lot more than white people.
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Keely Adler added 8mo ago
But a centuries-old system of oppression and brutality is not an easy fix, and maybe we shouldn’t be looking for easy reads.
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Keely Adler added 8mo ago
It is very hard to survive as a woman of color in this world, and I remember saying once that if I stopped to feel, really feel, the pain of the racism I encountered, I would start screaming and I would never ever stop.
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Keely Adler added 8mo ago
This becomes even stickier in social justice movements where you are targeting oppression. When you are supposed to be fighting the evils of “the man” you don’t want to realize that you’ve become “the man” within your own movement.
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Keely Adler added 8mo ago
Systemic racism is a machine that
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Keely Adler added 8mo ago
But when I look at what is putting me and millions of other people of color at risk, a lack of niceness from white people toward
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Keely Adler added 8mo ago
We cannot look at a society where racial inequity is so universal and longstanding and say, “This is all the doing of a few individuals with hate in their hearts.” It just doesn’t make sense.
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Keely Adler added 8mo ago