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Bucking The System

TED Radio Hour

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Is There a Definition of Racism?

Most common definition of racism is that races behaviors are the product of contaminated hearts and minds. No black community has ever taken to the streets to demand that white people would love us, because raceism is about behaviors, not feelings. When civil rights leaders like king and fanny lehamer used the language of love, the racism they fought was segregation and brutality, its actions over feelings. And every one of those leaders would agree, if a definition of raceism makes it harder to see the injuries raceisam causes, that's not just wrong.

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