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“The Myths of Whiteness”

WHY? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life

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The Legacy of History and the Legacy of Slavery

Ferguson is almost entirely a black community. Black people were constantly being stopped just to pay the police officer salaries. And so they are being oppressed in order to give the police officers their money and the police officers have an inherent conflict of interest. If I speak in front of a white audience and I ask how many times he'd been stopped by the police in the last 10 years, I get the 15. There's generally no white people in the audience raising their hand. So this is yet another example of which the black experience is funding the white experience without empathy.

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