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Should Young Black Males Expect Justice?
Author Walter Mosley addresses George Zimmerman’s acquittal at the Daily Beast by relating a powerful and lasting lesson on racism that he received as a teen from his father in 1969, which was that “living in the land of the free doesn’t make you free.” I remember when I was 17 years old, in 1969; three…
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10 Steps to End Rape Culture
As the saying goes, the biggest lie the devil tells is that he doesn’t exist, and in the Nation, novelist Walter Mosley says Americans use the same idea in refusing to acknowledge rape culture. 1. Name the real problems: Violent masculinity and victim-blaming. These are the cornerstones of rape culture and they go hand in hand. When an instance…
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