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Eliot Rosewater

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8. Privilege means I as a white person do not have to care about how

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Thu May 31, 2018, 11:37 AM

May 2018

my privilege affects you.

I dont have to know even, for that matter, that you WILL be arrested in situations where it is UNTHINKABLE that I would be.

Soon enough, with the racist fascist traitor in the WH, this WILL come to a head and shit will CHANGE.

You and other African American friends of mine here and elsewhere give me hope that someday this can all go away. They say in the future everything will be fluid, race, sex, etc. I wish I could go to sleep for a while and wake up then.

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Why is talking about race so divisive? [View all] sheshe2 May 2018 OP

I am very thankful for EffieBlack, Mr.Scorpio and you sheshe2! Anon-C May 2018 #1

I'm going to take this as a cue to reiterate one of my favorite articles... MrScorpio May 2018 #2

Hmmm sheshe2 May 2018 #3

This times 1000000 JustAnotherGen May 2018 #5

What-aboutism has crept into the discussion here at DU cyclonefence May 2018 #4

This is one of the most beautiful things JustAnotherGen May 2018 #6

as I read it, heaven05 May 2018 #7

Privilege means I as a white person do not have to care about how Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #8

It's hard to talk about race because we are obsessed with race marylandblue May 2018 #9