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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (14 children)

If you're on Mastodon I highly recommend giving Mekka Okereke a follow. His longer posts on racism in the USA were very eye opening. I've lived through most of what he discusses and some of it even surprised me.

If you have any issue or complaint about the USA, racism is almost certainly at the root of it. No public transit? Because it disproportionately hurts Black people. Bad public schools? Hurting Black people. No social safety nets, rampant health industry abuse, pollution, crumbling infrastructure, and on and on it will astound you how many bad things in America are bad just to spite Black people and regardless of the universal harm they do.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

These are also all things that disproportionally affect the working class

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