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Deny it if it makes you feel better, but the truth is, racism is still alive and kicking in the land of the free. What’s even sadder is that nothing is being done to eliminate it. ...
If we really want to combat racism, then we’re going to have to start with education.
In an ideal world, parents would teach their kids, before they started going to school, about the destruction of racism. ... So if the parents are unwilling, or sometimes unable, to educate their children, then it must fall on the shoulders of America’s education system. ...
Racism thrives on ignorance, and there’s plenty of that in America’s schools. ... This, however, is not justification for black men leading a life of crime and blaming it on their childhood, just as it wouldn’t be acceptable for a white man to justify his racial intolerance simply because the education system didn’t teach him any better.
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