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White Lies, Black Lives

KPFA - Against the Grain

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How to Survive and Not Be Destroyed by Racism

David Murrah: How does a black person maintain their sanity in the face of a brutal and brutally racist system? He says Baldwin answers it in a very complex way, but one way I summarize that is to make whiteness smaller inside your head. Murrah: Part of your spiritual and psychological recovery from racism in this society is to make white people matter less than you think about yourself.

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