institutionalized racism
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You Don't Say? Joe Biden Preaches to the Choir About White America's Systemic Racism
At a breakfast Monday morning in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, former Vice President Joe Biden stood in front of a crowd of black people and told them “white America has to admit there is systemic racism.” The breakfast was hosted by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, HuffPost reports, and it was attended…
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On Black Women and Erasure In The Face of Institutionalized Racism
Last week, I wrote a piece about the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week America was having in the aftermaths of the state-approved murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the subsequent killings of five police officers in Dallas, Texas, amid a peaceful protest of those killings. In this piece I pointed out…