Have you ever heard the James Baldwin quote about how the innocence constitutes the crime? America is literally set up..,
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Replying to @csilverandgold @anthoknees
So individual white people don't HAVE to do the dirty work of actively hating people (though implicit bias remains) bc we have systems...
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Nominally "race-neutral" systems, to maintain white hegemony in all areas of society. Why are certain neighborhoods overpoliced?
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Officially, not bc there are black ppl there, but because there's more crime in these areas... bc the system concentrated disadvantage...
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In those neighborhoods! Why do we have shitty schools? Well, the property tax allocations. Why low prop tax in our areas?
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Bc, for example, in Dallas, where I'm from, the two wealthiest white areas literally seceded from the city & other white wealth...
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Fled to the burbs! These issues don't take place specifically on the question of skin color but instead use other things as a proxy for race
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That's why you can't fix them with colorblindness alone.
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