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Jeremy Spilsbury's avatar

Melissa, he doesn’t have to engage in the system in order for the system to exist. I think his ignorance is a sign of white privilege. If you were black in the South during Jim Crow, you didn’t have the luxury of being ignorant. The threat of racial violence was thrust upon you.

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Melissa Knox's avatar

In those days there really was American apartheid. There really isn’t now. There’s still racism and unfairness but not a system of white supremacy anymore

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