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6. Yeah, I honestly decided to ignore him because, after all,
Thu May 25, 2017, 05:40 PM
May 2017

he is a street person. But this was the first time in my life of many incidents with supremacy did LBJ's words knocked me upside the head, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man..." And I'm not saying I'm the best PoC but the power that any of them have to upend our lives is undeniable.

A social worker friend of mine, an AA female, told me the other day that she's experiencing an increased level of outright racism on the job since 45 took office, just blatant shit that even the lowest hid before that she didn't know was in them.

I don't know which upheaval will come first but I think it will be social and not racial, which has been the trend when we come to rally with white allies in the past, always failure. We'll see.

Thanks for posting, heaven05. These incidents are so normalized that I even forgot about it a few days later.

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