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Few things infuriate me more than people who automatically and wholeheartedly support a police officer who’s been caught wilding out against a person of color, because, almost without fail, someone says “Well, if s/he had simply listened to the officer, things would have been all right.” You may as well advise people to not make …
The only Americans who truly understand the forces behind the Baltimore/Freddie Gray riots are Black people. That’s not to say that other races cannot sympathize; there are plenty of compassionate human beings of all shades who have marched, petitioned, and otherwise raised awareness about the all-too-frequent occurrences of police brutality to people of African descent. A …
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Don’t resist arrest or express frustration with police harassment in an officer’s presence. Don’t reach for I.D. when asked. Don’t walk in dark stairwells. Don’t run. Don’t…live? Image courtesy of Ramsey Orta.
It’s not very often that a mainstream animated film features a biracial, female lead, but DreamWorks Animation’s Home does just that. The move is a first for the studio, and one that I truly hope proves successful at the box office, because society needs this type of representation. As an ’80s kid, I didn’t see many …
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