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Jackie Wilson Said

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16. Our language reinforces this absurd indifference toward the lives of non whites.

Fri Mar 25, 2016, 12:03 PM

Mar 2016

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White Magic

The black alternative is always bad, there is a long list of examples which I dont have at this moment.

One white woman is missing, thought dead, and the nation will focus on it day after day. Black women go missing or dead too.

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Who are we, really? [View all] MrScorpio Mar 2016 OP

Excellent point. xfundy Mar 2016 #1

When the victims are white Coolest Ranger Mar 2016 #2

+1 YoungDemCA Mar 2016 #11

K&R Scuba Mar 2016 #3

K&R ismnotwasm Mar 2016 #4

Yup. Digital Puppy Mar 2016 #5

Millions have died in the eastern Congo .... kwassa Mar 2016 #6

You tell no lies JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #8

K&R brer cat Mar 2016 #7

Word. n/t Kind of Blue Mar 2016 #9

The direct consequence of seeing black and brown people as less than human YoungDemCA Mar 2016 #10

Human Hierarchy of Value... OneGrassRoot Mar 2016 #17

K&R Quayblue Mar 2016 #12

I can do one better. A woman, white, late 40s, in my office was laughing at the "joke" her 13-year Number23 Mar 2016 #14

unfortunately, you did me one better smh Quayblue Mar 2016 #15

Our language reinforces this absurd indifference toward the lives of non whites. Jackie Wilson Said Mar 2016 #16

What a horrible thing to say. wildeyed Mar 2016 #18

TELL IT. I have been saying the same thing for as long as I can remember Number23 Mar 2016 #13