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#1 Racism is when you discriminate against someone based on their race, creed, or color. It is not limited to race, and it is always rooted in power.
#2 Racism is the assertion of superiority in order to discriminate. It is the defense of unequal treatment based on the perceived idea of race. It is a fairly modern idea that came to full realization in the Western...
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#1 The world of the super-rich is different from the world of the rich. To be considered super-rich, you must have a net worth of more than $30 million. The majority of people who have this amount of wealth do not spend their days shopping at the Mall of Life without ever looking at a price tag.
#2 The line between being poor and being super-rich is somewhat relative....
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#1 The idea that any discussion of slavery should be linked to the transportation of black Africans to the New World would have struck most people as bizarre fifty years ago. The stories of slavery in the Old Testament have been omitted from modern books on the history of Britain.
#2 The practice of slavery has been eroding away from the general public for years. Today,...
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#1 Tragedies are stories about people not getting what they want, but not all stories about people not getting what they want seem tragic. In comedies, people get something of what they want, but in tragedies, people often discover that their wanting doesn't work and they get less and less of what they thought they wanted.
#2 The art of life is to make incompatible...
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#1 White Southerners, who were largely poor and working class, were considered undesirable by 21 percent of those surveyed in Detroit in 1951, and by 13 percent of those surveyed in Chicago in 1948.
#2 Many have tried to explain regional and racial differences by invoking slavery. But this explanation falls flat when one considers the existence of this same subculture...
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#1 In 1950, a teenager named Barbara Johns led a strike by her fellow high school students in Prince Edward County to demand a better school. The niece of the Reverend Vernon Johns, the radical minister who later mentored the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara never consulted her Montgomery uncle about the strike.
#2 The seed was planted by Miss Davenport, who...
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#1 The American people are deeply divided about one thing: the belief that Washington is rife with government corruption. The concern over widespread corruption is growing.
#2 The new form of corruption in Washington involves large sums of money that are being funneled to the families and friends of politicians who are making influential decisions that affect everything...
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#1 The rock art at Mulka's Cave is unique in the region for being so densely packed with images. It is difficult to date, but it is believed that the cave was created by indigenous Australians around 60,000 years ago.
#2 The world is not what it seems. It's a home that is more lived in than any other that I can imagine. Countless generations have absorbed and built upon...
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#1 I remember being seven years old, checking out books with my mother, and having the librarian ask me if my name was really Austin. I realized that white people thought my name was strange.
#2 I had gotten used to white people assuming that I was male. They would always call me by my male name, and when I answered the librarian's question about my little library card,...
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#1 Raye Means was a college graduate who wanted to pursue a career in engineering, but she was barred from doing so because of her race. She ended up working as a clerk-typist for the Applied Mathematics Lab, which was staffed with engineers who seemed to consider their position a birthright.
#2 Raye Means was born in 1935 in Arkansas. She was the wind beneath her wings,...
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#1 When I began learning English, my mother was worried about my mental stability. When I added Russian to my curriculum, she took me to the doctor. Luckily, he was a student of Russian himself and was able to assure her that my ambitions were not medically abnormal.
#2 I, too, accepted the laws curtailing my rights quietly. I was 15 when I was struck off the...
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#1 The cost of street violence in America is staggering. It involves, for the most part, young men killing or wounding other young men in tragic and brutal cycles of retribution.
#2 Urban violence is best understood as a grievous injury, a gushing wound that demands immediate attention in order to preserve life and limb. The treatments I propose address urban violence...
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#1 There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. However, we don't have fully accurate information about the number or nature of homicides at the hands of police.
#2 Over-policing can lead to excessive force being used, which is just the tip of the iceberg of over-policing. There are currently more than...
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#1 The term racial is used to describe a pattern of oppression of one group of people by another. It is not an automatic promotion to oppressor, and historically, racial dissimilarities have not only been artificially used, they are themselves artificial.
#2 By considering racial oppression in terms of the substantive, the operative element, namely oppression, it is...
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#1 You can alter a situation to make people feel more valued or included, even in seemingly minor ways.
#2 You can make your underlings feel more valued in seemingly minor ways.
#3 You can alter a situation to make people feel more valued or included, even in seemingly minor ways.
#4 You can use situation-crafting to create a mission that cannot be accomplished unless...
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#1 France was ruled by the nobility, the clergy, and the Third Estate, or commoners. The Tiers-État, or Third Estate, were the peasants, merchants, and workers. The French Revolution was the result of the Tiers-État waking up and realizing their inequalities, and the French monarchy not addressing them.
#2 The Illuminati took advantage of the unstable climate...
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#1 The US marshals that were sent to pick up the two men were from the Security Housing Unit, or the Hole, as it was known by those who worked and lived in it. The two men being transferred were Barry Byron Mills and Charles Manson.
#2 The US marshals cuffed the Baron, and took him by force. The semi-easy-hard way was that they simply shot him with a Taser, and after...
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#1 I'm not sure if my experience is the same as others, but I do have faith in talking to each other. We are communal creatures who must mirror each other to know who we are. Every living thing ages and dies, yet humans seem to be the only species that thinks about aging and dying.
#2 I was writing an anthology of famous and not-so-famous last words and death scenes,...
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#1 I had traveled to central France to see the Black Madonna of Mauriac, a dark-skinned version of the Virgin Mary. I had longed to see a sacred image of Black femininity, and I was finally able to do so. But I was also nervous about being punished for breaking the rules.
#2 The delegitimizing stereotype of sloppy, dirty, lazy, and worthless is often used against...
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#1 I once had to drive a friend to his apartment to sweep for drugs, which I did not find very amusing. I was convinced the police would ambush us at any moment.
#2 One day, I was hanging out with my friend Brother A when police burst into his apartment and arrested him. I was taken into the bedroom and searched, but nothing was found on me. The next day, police came...
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