What is something everyone has heard through some media. The same rhetoric of racism no longer existing, while using underlying concerning phrases. I mean there is the famous 'I have a black friend' or the 'I don't see color'. This fits the 'color blindness' theme. The thing - and I've spoken about this before- is that racism still exists. Raisin in the Sun is very clear in the implicit way racial minority groups are discriminated against. The main defense people have is historical context, and that isn't exactly a good scale because if you want to live in a world where racism isn't a concern because you aren't enslaving people, that world can't have technology: you can't have both, you must have one or the other. If you want the facilities of today you need to base your index on today. Racism today is institutional - housing, wealth- naturalized - it is the way it is naturally- and those are some things we have to combat. The...
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