Many institution hire people of color because they are forced to meet a quota. This is helpful, but still can end up being harmful. Today it is still difficult for someone who identifies as black or hispanic to get hired because their name sounds "ghetto".
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Right now, right here these are the things happening in 2018. Again and again we see the "powers" working to keep themselves in power.
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When we discuss the topic of a wage gap between different groups we tend to foget that Asian Americans just like African Americans and Hispanics get the short end of the stick.
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Women and men are both capable of competing against each other. Yes, there are some challenges but if a cis man and cis woman can't compete against each other forcing a transman to complete against women or a transwoman to compete against men is not acceptable.
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As an immigration without a US citizenship you can fight in wars, be police officers, and pay taxes yet it is illigal for that those people to vote. That is so backwards.
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The War is a Racket speech is a symbol of our reality. Nothing that was said in the speech is new to me our anyone (I don't believe). War is profitable and has always been profitable for the United States of America. World War II brought America to her present glory.
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We are all products of rape. Whether you're white, black, hispanic etc...
Why do some still feel the need to turn their nose up as if one group is better than the other?
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By promoting colorblindness, you're erasing the struggles that people endure in racialized landscapes but also in other aspects of their identity (ex. sexuality, gender, class, etc) #NQSOC221
".....because I wouldn't want anyone to think that I wasn't tolerant" (p. 13)
We fail to realize that 'tolerance' and 'acceptance' are very different.
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