• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I once mentioned being proud of my mixed-race family and was called a racist. That was a crummy day.

    Also, the day I decided maybe social activism wasn’t for me.

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      Ah, the horseshoe theory proving nutjobs who wants apartheid because they think races can’t mix because checks notes they think there will always be a problematic power imbalance so lets not even try integration

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        It is so weird that people would rather see kids orphaned than raised by a white family, but it was an important lesson for me.