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Hot Take!!! The cop pulled the trigger, but the system murdered Ma'Khia Bryant

We may look at the killing of Ma’Khia as justified, but that is because we’ve been indoctrinated with certain preconceptions about how police must act in a certain situations. We must re examine and reconsider these preconceptions.

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Personal Take: Progressives must address racism to enact their agenda

Progressives must face the truth. The only way to truly enact their agenda is to take racism head on, because all of their agenda is inextricably tied to racial equity. This means they can’t simply choose a strategy of economic argument while diminishing or ignoring the racial arguments.

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Marvel's Continuing Examination of Race from Black Panther to The Falcon

Both the Black Panther movie and the Falcon series expose a through line of racial unrest that exists just below the surface of the MCU.

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Personal Take: Lack of inclusion in Public Education makes minorities more susceptible to Disinformation

the realization and knowledge of being misinformed in school stunts a student’s ability to buy in to the educational experience. Additionally, it stunts student’s ability to perform research because instead of schools teaching them to rely on primary sources of information, the school experience teaches minority students to be distrustful of primary sources, making them more susceptible and vulnerable to “alternative information” or disinformation.

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White Supremacy is a problem for White People

Black people have suffered under the boot of white supremacy, but it is a problem for White people. Minorities can help them identify and define the problem, but they must root it out and destroy it. This means White progressives, liberals, moderates, independents, and conservatives must do something they have often neglected to do. They must check themselves.

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Hot Take!!!! Conservatives can exist without the GOP

Principled Conservatives need to leave the party. You don’t have common cause with Democrats fine, but that requires creation of a new consistent Conservative political party. They have to support the implementation of policies that actively deconstruct white supremacy and acknowledge that institutional racism is a thing that actually exists instead of trying to mindlessly preserve the status quo. They need to be pro faith, pro truth, pro intellect, and anti-discrimination.

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The Persistence of White Supremacy (Part 2 of 4)

The Constitution of the United States and the formation of Congress could only be secured by compromises with white supremacy. These compromises embedded white supremacy into the foundation of America. From 1788 until 1861 America engaged in the fool’s errand of maintaining a middle ground between establishing freedom for all and keeping Black people as slaves.

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The Persistence of White Supremacy (Part 1 of 4)

The United States Government was ill equipped to deal with a racist insurrection because American has yet to recognize how widespread and embedded white supremacy is in the American cultural psyche. Ever since the beginning, America has been two nations. It has been a nation that aspires toward a diverse and inclusive democratic melting pot where all people are treated equally, but it has also been an exclusive anti-democratic nation based on white supremacy.

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