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"It was just because she's Black" (pg 159)

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"It was just because she's Black" (pg 159)

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"In the end Jasmine got it. I didn't. My mom said things like, 'Don't worry, Karli, it was just because she's Black, it's just because she's mixed"'(159). It's appalling that a grown woman told her daughter that her friend only got in because she's black. She's the reason that racism gets passed on through generations and why inequalities and prejudice continue to spread.

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It's just hair. It's not just hair though. I don't understand how something as trivial as hair could ever be thought of as a distraction or inconvenience, especially when it is such an important part of one's culture.

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Footnote: "... promise in 1865 to give every freed Black family forty acres of land. What we don't learn about is that President Andrew Johnson reversed it after Lincoln was killed and gave the land back to former Confederate owners."

I feel like history classes always end up leaving out a detail that paints a president to be a bad person. These are the types of things we should know. We should know that even after there was some progress it was taken away as soon as possible, every step forward was three steps back.

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And i was probably the only woman of color there that was not a nanny. And i was working with just the most privileged children in the world, and i was being called the n-word by strangers on the street.

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"I remember my Hispano history teacher gave us this coloring page of a conquistador on a horse saying "The mighty conquistadors are ready to take out the indigenous pueblo savages" pg 58

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"I remember my Hispano history teacher gave us this coloring page of a conquistador on a horse saying "The mighty conquistadors are ready to take out the indigenous pueblo savages" pg 58

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"what really bothers me is that that teacher had been teaching for so long, and so many kids had gotten that coloring page"
Once kids get older they don't usually get coloring pages so this teacher was teaching racism to YOUNG children.

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"He won this award in our eighth grade class for being a cool person, and I think it shows we have a lot of respect in Whitefish for different cultures,"

I get what he's trying to say but I feel like just by the demographic of a primarily white town, you can tell there's a reason there's such a small amount of people of color. His community, which is a small part of the town does not show the whole town.

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¨Throughout my life, people have this weird delusion that they need to try and cheer me up about my disability. The world had an issue with me. It made me uncomfortable so much in my life, until I was maybe 24.¨

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Deb's abusive boyfriend ("a very White-looking Mexican") called the cops on her, and all he had to say was "She has a mental illness" for her to be poorly treated by the police:
"And I felt like I didn't get the patient treatment that I've seen mentally ill White women get."
After 20 years of never getting in trouble, she was facing domestic violence charges and wasn't given a chance to defend herself.

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"Just go ahead and bomb all of them"(225).

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"Just go ahead and bomb all of them"(225).

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I can't believe how different the different "sides" of politics are. This quote was delivered by a right leaning republican during the first Bush administration. How do you have to view a certain group to vouch for something like this?
- Sheyla U

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"There are people who understand the differences, and then there are people who are - it's the whole, "I'm not racist" thing, you know? "Oh, I'm not racist." "I have a Black friend," or "I listen to Black music," and it's like, no!""

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"Your destiny is kind of predetermined based on who you are. They hand PhDs to some people, but others have to give up a kidney to get a degree". Here, Shermaine talks about an advisor who was biased against her likely because of her skin color. She was trying to get a PhD and eventually a job, but this advisor was preventing her from doing so. It made me angry because he had so much power over her and she couldn't do anything about the situation.

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"55% of the 34.5 million Latinos in the United States identify as Catholic"

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In the United States, 47 children and teens ages ZERO to 19 (and 342 total people) are shot EVERY DAY in murders, assaults, suicides, suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention. Homicide is the SECOND LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH among U.S. fifteen - to twenty-four-year-olds. This is terrifying.

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"When my sisters were naming their babies, the first thing in consideration was, "Can they get a job with this name?" (155). It's so sad that someone's name can strongly impact how their future will turn out. On this page it says, "researchers found that White applicants receive 36 percent more callbacks than equally qualified African Americans" which is crazy!! An employer can decide whether or not you move on, just based on your name and how "black" or "white" it sounds

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Typically, when we learn about discrimination, it regards African Americans and the limitations they face in life. What school doesn't teach us is that so many other races and ethnicities face large scale discrimination as well. For example, many Asian Americans were denied job offers after the Pearl Harbor bombing (247).

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"If I was born in New York, I wouldn't be Black. But in Louisiana, if you have one drop of Black blood, you are black." (pg. 63). -- This was Louisiana law until 1983 that anyone with more than 1/32 of Black blood would be considered Black.

However, the same person also says:
"My birth certificate didn't label me as colored because I was born in a house, and my dad went to register my birth at the city hall, and since he didn't look Black, they didn't put "colored" on my birth certificate." (pg. 63).

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"more than 120 drugs prescribed by physicians today were first made from plant extracts, and 75% of these were derived from examining plants used in traditional indigenous medicine"

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¨Native Americans are incarcerated at a rate 38 percent higher than the national average... Native Americans are more likely to be killed by police than any other racial group.¨

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When one of Heather's Black boyfriends lived with us for a period of time, and we got followed in stores, that's when White privilege finally clicked for me" pg 55

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When one of Heather's Black boyfriends lived with us for a period of time, and we got followed in stores, that's when White privilege finally clicked for me" pg 55

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Heather's mother, believing that she had had to work hard as a white woman, never understood white privilege until she experienced it herself. How can we show everyone what white privilege is if it takes experience for white people to understand?

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"There was an assumption that I would do well because my mom is Chinese. My mom always contacted my teacher to check on how I was doing, so she was stereotyped as a 'tiger mom'." (87) - an example of the model minority myth, assuming someone will do well in school just because they're Asian. The stereotypes also shock me because the speaker, Lauren, has a disability, and even if she didn't, just because her mother checks in on her doesn't mean she's a "tiger mom" at all.

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"You grew up in the church, I don't understand why now you go to college and all of a sudden you're LGBT?"
There are still people who think that merely sending someone to church is going to prevent them from identifying as whatever they want.

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"When I was thirteen, I had to capply for a certificate [to go on Native land], and I got rejected a bunch of times because I don't have the right amount of Native blood"

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"Bisexuality does not exist"

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"I met Ples soon after I lost my son, Tariq... He was lured to a bogus address by a youth gang. Tony was 14 years old and given a gun by the 18-year-old gang leader. In the initiation ritual, Tony shot and killed my son. He was only twenty years old." (pg.313)

This is absolutely horrific. I can't imagine the trauma, impact, and turmoil his parents must have felt. We're not as civilized as a society as we may think. Persecuting someone for their religious beliefs is beyond brutal.

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19.6% of women were chefs in kitchens in 2015, even though they make up 54.2% of the food service industry.

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The footnote: "To be nonracist implies passiveness (which can include being a bystander)... If you're privileged and passive, you're still part of the problem because you remain a beneficiary of an oppressive system."

This footnote reminded me of all those people and celebrities with the platform to say something about any type of oppression or racist acts. I think there are so many people with a massive amount of supporters who would share what they say and yet they're silent. At the end of the day, as the quote says, they would benefit at the end of the day. When it came to the BLM movement, the majority of the celebrities that showed active support were people of color. Those who didn't go to protests for the photos.

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"In the book all Native Americans are identified as savages, little brown mice, and they say that the Indian will eat you".

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"My dad had hypertension and diabetes, but didn't get the right advice from his physician, so he died much earlier than he had to". It's really sad that medical workers will often give less attention to POC, especially African Americans. Shermaine talks about how African Americans have the highest death rate for most cancers.

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"Like, my church is mostly white, but I have gone to Black churches, and I like them, but I think everybody tends to just go where they're comfortable"
Implying that Black people make you uncomfortable. Why do they prefer one race church over the other? Why do we let this continue?

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The speaker in this section points out how hard it is to be able to stick to your culture at times. She points out that Whole Foods is referred to by brown people as "Whole Paycheck" because poor people cannot afford it. She also points out how it is not meant for brown people because it doesn't carry any of the primary ingredients of most of their dishes. It's awful how hard it is to find  parts of your culture in a place as basic as a grocery store. It's simply another way of keeping people separated.
Sheyla U

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" The Shriver Report found that if women were paid at the same rate as men, the poverty rate for women would be reduced by half. And in 2012, the U.S. economy would have produced $447.6 billion more in income-2.9 percent of GDP.

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I remember in high school living in kentucky, the woman i dated was a black woman. My grandad saw her, and said, "Whos that little n-girl?" You cant legislate compassion.

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"all the White kids in Farmville tended to go to Prince Edward Academy, a private segregated school" pg 55

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"all the White kids in Farmville tended to go to Prince Edward Academy, a private segregated school" pg 55

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After cities became more diverse, many white families moved to the suburbs. Today, different areas of the country are becoming increasingly racially homogeneous.

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Morgan describes the segragation in her classes (not officially): regular classes are mostly Black and Hispanic, Pre-AP classes are mostly White and some Hispanic with a couple Black students, and AP classes are nearly all White or Asian. "We don't mix"
Though I understand this is just the statistics and observations at school, there is no effort to create a more diverse space or to change the "we don't mix" mindset into something more constructive.

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"Fewer than 12,000 people - much less than 1% of living Cherokees - speak the Cherokee language" (90).

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Rosa Parks was supposed to be the plaintiff in a lawsuit, but because she had already been found guilty before, the case would go back to the city court (not the federal court) which is not what they wanted. Four other women testified in court after for what happened to them prior to Rosa Parks, but the head of Montgomery's NAACP chapter said that one of them was "too dark-skinned" and another was "too outspoken, not docile enough" to be the plaintiff (though the head didn't end up getting his way).

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"Many indigenous communities have histories of slave holding"

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"The KKK saw a boost in its members in 2017. more than half of today's klans formed in the last 3 years"

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It's so sad to see people go through such turmoil because of the environment they were brought up in, in this case, for the person talking in the "Standing Alone" portion. This portion hits home to me because of the talk about "oh, go to the priest and all of your problems will be solved," even for mental illnesses. Her mother giving up her Native American side to fit in is sad, not just for the mother but also for the girl to not have an environment that was as accepting of her as a Native American one :(.

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During their removal after the Pearl Harbor bombing, the Japanese descents were placed in poor living conditions. That alone is awful, but what makes it worse is that our president at the time, FDR, proudly referred to them as "concentration camps"---alluding to the holocaust. (245)

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¨I cried my eyes out because I was terrified. There was no security. He could've just shot me. And no one would understand, like, ¨Oh he didn't mean it, don´t play the race card.¨

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"Well I wasn't talking about you"

I feel like it's so common for people to call something bad or that it shouldn't be done, yet create excuses for when their own group does the same thing. Similar to the mother in the quote, she specifically doesn't want immigrants unless they're white. She can just as easily say she doesn't want POC.

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For context her father adopted her from the Philippines and gets heavy backlash from the racist community that she lives in. She comes out to her father and he disagrees and when she and her partner gets married he doesn't attend nor does he even acknowledge it.

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"Pursuing equality is not enough. What we want to achieve, instead, is equity" (pg 251).

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"Pursuing equality is not enough. What we want to achieve, instead, is equity" (pg 251).

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OMG in the context of this quote is meant for emphasizing that this is an important idea that should be given more attention; not, "OMG can you believe this," or "OMG this is insane."

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Pakistan's Bengali Genocide, Belgium's Congolese Genocide, Germany's Herero and Nama Genocide

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" I did not come out to my family. The came to the hospital after I survived an attempted murder, a trans hate crime.

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I learned what micronesians were. Theyre the latest of the immigrant population coming to hawai'i. They are seen as being "at the bottom of the totem pole" (231)

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"When I talked with my son about it, he said the girl told him he couldn't play with her..." (pg. 149)

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"When I talked with my son about it, he said the girl told him he couldn't play with her..." (pg. 149)

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Later it said that her son didn't even know what the n word was, but the girl did. There's no way that the girl learned it on her own.

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p 87 - As of 2017, 80% of 472 subway stops in NYC are inaccessible to persons with disabilities.

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EXCUSE ME? Oh my god...

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"Xernona Clayton, a Black woman, got the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan to leave the clan"

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"In 2017, the Anti-Defamation League reported the number of Anti-Semitic incidents were nearly 57% higher than in 2016."

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"'Oh shoot, I can't play 'the Mexican card' in every challenge'."(222).
Said in the context of being in a cooking competition and making mole for the first time. I think that it's sad that making dishes of your heritage would be thought of as playing any sort of card. It's shocking to me, because being able to make something that other people can't would be an advantage in a situation like that. Why should it matter that someone keeps making those types of dishes?
- Sheyla U.

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"Yet black children are less likely to be told they have disabilities, and to be treated for them, than otherwise similar White children."

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"As of 2015, nearly 180 U.S. school districts were involved in active desegregation cases, forty-four of them in Mississippi." pg 52

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"As of 2015, nearly 180 U.S. school districts were involved in active desegregation cases, forty-four of them in Mississippi." pg 52

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15 years after Brown v. Board of Education, Black students were finally able to enroll in any school in Cleveland, Mississippi.

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"I know a lot of White people who just sit back and go, well, I don't see any people of color here, so it's not my fault that my friends are all White". Sick and tired of this! Majorities hide behind their majority-ness to justify their racism.

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17yo kid who was neurodivergent got dragged out of a courthouse before the verdict concerning a murder case was made official and taken down the road while repeatedly being stabbed and cut then forced to build a pyre under a tree that he was then hanged and roasted above while being dismembered limb from limb for 2 hours then whatever was left of his body was taken and dragged through the streets and this was witnessed by thousands upon thousands of people ranging from children to the elderly.

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"(My grandparents) decided they would have contact with us again because I didn't have dark skin" p.149

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"(My grandparents) decided they would have contact with us again because I didn't have dark skin" p.149

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This is honestly too common of a thing. Really? First of all, being racist towards your child's spouse, THEN refusing to be a grand-parent figure? Do better

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"They decided to have contact with us again because I didn't have dark skin" pg 149

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"They decided to have contact with us again because I didn't have dark skin" pg 149

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Mahala's mother's side of the family cut off all contact with her once she married her father, who was African American. When Mahala was born and they found out she had light skin, freckles, and red hair, they suddenly wanted to gain contact with them again. I find it really heartbreaking that someone would cut off their family just because they married someone they loved who happened to be of another race.

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only about 17% of Pacific Islanders have a bachelors degree

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" The Tusla Race Riot of 1921 is an important event in Tusla history. Black walstreet, formally known as the wealthiest black neighborhood in the country, was looted and burned by White rioters."

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After the Pearl Harbor bombings, everyone of "Japanese ancestry would be removed from the West Coast" (244). I have always been aware of this, but didn't realize the extent to which they were quite literally forced to leave everything they ever had behind (houses, shops, life of opportunities)

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"The city of San Francisco tried to discriminate against Chinese Americans, because about 89 percent of the laundry workers were of Chinese descent. But then, a Chinese man named Yick Wo pressed the case and in 1886 won in the U.S. Supreme Court"

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"I'm 🤬, but I treat everyone the same" (pg 250)!

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"I'm 🤬, but I treat everyone the same" (pg 250)!

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OMG is an odd reaction to this statement, but it seems to be the most fitting of the options. The perceived innocence of the speaker through this statement allows them to hide their prejudice by comparing themselves to individuals who are relatively "worse" than they are, but fails to recognize that their prejudices are still bad.

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"You could be the smartest person in the room, but if you don't have connections, and you don't have those opportunities to interact with people who hold those positions of power, you just won't get access to certain things,"

A lot of people have concluded that having connections has historically made you get far. In the time after the civil war when a lot of migrants were coming to the country, they would ask certain questions regarding your purpose for coming. If you didn't have family, a connection or money (especially money) in that city, you wouldn't get the same welcome. Germans who came before WW2 had connections since they had the time to plan their immigration whereas people escaping war or coming from the south did it in a rush to escape horrible treatments.

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Shelley said the word "pill" had 2 syllables and then got placed in special education for speech disorder. - Ivan

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Eight percent of Native American...fifteen years old"- pg 141

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Eight percent of Native American...fifteen years old"- pg 141

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I knew about the alcohol abuse in the Native American community due to colonization but I had no idea the data included younger kids as well

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"And he said, 'You didn't tell me you were Black, and I don't date dirty Black girls.'" (pg. 149)

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"And he said, 'You didn't tell me you were Black, and I don't date dirty Black girls.'" (pg. 149)

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????? How can someone say this out loud and not care about how people will feel after hearing this

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North central Arkansas home of KKK banished all Black people

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"By the 2010 census, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders made up 10 percent of the island population, yet 39 percent of the prison and jail population."

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lynching got its name from a man named William lynch who was a British slave owner

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This man was talking about how gatekeeping is actually really harmful, and if you are in the position to gatekeep then you have an unecessary power over others. (225)

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There's a study about how within our city there's a life expectancy gap between the south and the north of town. That gap is 16.1 years.

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"No one even told me there's a Hispanic or Black community in the town. That's embarrassing!"
I can believe it, but am still slightly taken aback at how some white people view the world.

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sun down towns; white communities where people of color shouldn't be in when the sun goes down

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A mother not being able to go to the doctor until her breast cancer reached stage 4 because medical care is so expensive

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"Portland is the least racist place in America" (121)

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"Portland is the least racist place in America" (121)

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This completely contradicts what Yasna, Priya, and Winona found when they went to the research floor of the Oregon Historical society, how they found that Oregon was home to highest KKK membership per capita in the 20s.

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" its a negative thing, the mixing. Full blooded people have our pride."

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How are people still not being educated about what gentrification is???

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A family in Little rock has the same family working for them since slavery.

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"She was one of the five women who led the Civil Rights Movement." (84)
Why do we only know the names of Rosa Park and MLK in the context of the Civil Rights Movement?

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Woman was saying that she doesn't see race, but the author's point out that if you can't see race, you can't see racism...