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JCanete

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7. Yes, but strategy is one thing, and people suffering from the knowledge that their country could do
Wed Nov 30, 2016, 07:32 PM
Nov 2016

such a thing aren't necessarily in a strategic state of mind right now, nor one with enough room to be all Jesus'y with their abusers. I've tried to make the same point as you, but had to acknowledge that some people are just too raw, too constantly under the stress of this all, for me to come along and call them out for how they are venting their pain.

That said, recommitting to the strategy of tearing racism down, while a wholly unfair burden, still falls greatly on the backs of the most abused, because the system will use whatever it can to justify the status-quo. Shirts about "white tears" I can appreciate, especially since I understand the context of those tears being referred to, but make great fodder for calls of reverse racism by people who benefit from the messaging.

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