Colour Me Blind
Great video I just came across, it totally outs the way diversity gets used to shut down conversations about the impacts of racism …
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Build me a bridge …
An actual comment, left by an actual person on the Stuff White People Like blog: I am so sick and tired of the fucking double-standard!!! OMG! YES, ONCE UPON A TIME, WHITE PEOPLE HAD BLACK PEOPLE AS SLAVES! GUESS WHAT!?!?! THOSE TIMES ARE GONE AND PASSED! MORE IMPORTANTLY, you should realize that the white people…
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That is awesome! Good find. Oh man, I laughed hard over this except it was also so uncomfortably real that it wasn’t funny…