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by charlesu 2108 days ago
The current climate perpetuates race as something to notice? I'm sorry but was the previous climate different?
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This is key. If we could wipe the slate clean and provide equal opportunity, then we would have a strong blueprint to do so.

But we are fighting close to 400 years of systematic oppression to turn those opportunities into tangible results. That history requires some type of direct action to advance the current state of Black Americans.