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Writings about Whiteness and Racism

  • To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest

Tag: Love the hell out of them

by Zee Bee

Love the Hell Out of ‘Em

If John Lewis can love the people who literally tried to kill him, I can be patient with a neighbor who says she’s colorblind.

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