Tim Wise Part Part 1 - Does White America Finally Realize Racism is Real?

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Summary

TLDRO orador reflexiona sobre a situación racial en Estados Unidos, buscando un enfoque optimista a pesar do pesimismo xeral. Destaca que, a diferenza dos últimos oito anos, agora é máis evidente a existencia do racismo, e que non é necesario convencer á xente da súa existencia. A elección de Donald Trump é vista como un retorno á normalidade histórica do racismo, en lugar de ser un fenómeno novo. O orador enfatiza a importancia de entender a historia para loitar contra a injustiza actual, subliñando que a loita contra o racismo debe basearse no coñecemento do pasado para ser efectiva.

Takeaways

  • 🌧️ A situación actual é difícil, pero sempre se pode buscar un rayo de esperanza.
  • 👨‍👧‍👦 Como pai, é importante dar esperanza aos mozos.
  • 🔍 Agora é máis evidente a existencia do racismo en EE.UU.
  • 📉 Non é necesario convencer á xente da existencia do racismo como antes.
  • 🔄 A elección de Trump é un retorno á normalidade histórica do racismo.
  • 📚 Entender a historia é clave para loitar contra a injustiza.
  • ⚔️ Non subestimar o racismo, pero tampouco darlle máis poder do que merece.
  • 🕰️ O racismo non é un fenómeno novo, senón unha continuidade histórica.
  • 💡 Aprender do pasado para resistir no presente.
  • 🌍 A loita contra o racismo debe ser informada e consciente.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:06:06

    O orador reflexiona sobre a súa falta de optimismo respecto á situación racial nos Estados Unidos, pero como pai, busca sempre un lado positivo para dar esperanza aos mozos. Nos últimos oito anos, foi difícil convencer á xente, especialmente aos brancos, de que o racismo era un problema real, a pesar de que un home negro ocupaba a presidencia. Agora, a situación é diferente, xa que a resurgencia do racismo é máis evidente e non é necesario convencer á xente do seu impacto. O orador compara a elección de Donald Trump cun regreso á programación habitual, argumentando que a scapegoating de persoas de cor non é algo novo, senón unha tradición histórica en América. Para loitar contra a injustiza, é fundamental entender a historia e a continuidade do racismo, en vez de consideralo como un fenómeno novo e único.

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Video Q&A

  • Cal é o enfoque do orador sobre a situación racial en EE.UU.?

    O orador busca optimismo a pesar do pesimismo xeral, especialmente como pai.

  • Que cambio se observa na percepción do racismo en EE.UU.?

    Agora é máis evidente e non é necesario convencer á xente da súa existencia.

  • Como se relaciona a elección de Donald Trump co racismo en EE.UU.?

    É vista como un retorno á normalidade histórica do racismo, non como un fenómeno novo.

  • Por que é importante entender a historia do racismo?

    Para loitar contra a injustiza actual e non subestimar o problema.

  • Que leccións se poden aprender da historia para a resistencia?

    Entender que o racismo non é algo novo permite aplicar leccións do pasado na loita actual.

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    those who know my work know that I'm not
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    necessarily known for my my sunny and
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    cheery optimism about the world and
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    particularly as relates to this country
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    and as relates to the issue of race and
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    yet because I am a father right I always
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    try to tease out some optimism out of
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    the worst moments that befall us
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    as a nation and I do that because I
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    think it's important to give young
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    people hope right and I've got two of
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    these young people in my home that I'm
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    responsible for so I'm always looking
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    for a silver lining and whatever cloud
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    happens to cover right the skies of the
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    country and it's real hard to do that
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    right now right things are a little
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    foreboding and yet I have figured out
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    and I don't know if I actually believe
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    this like I might totally be fooling
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    myself right so you don't have to buy it
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    you might I don't even know if I buy it
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    but I'm gonna try to tease out some
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    optimism of this moment here it is let's
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    see how this works right for the last
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    eight years as I've gone around the
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    country doing this work talking about
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    race in America and not just myself
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    other people who do this work as well
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    for the last eight years we have been
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    having to convince people particularly
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    to convince white Americans that the
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    issue of race and racism was even
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    something we had to talk about right
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    because people were convinced we didn't
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    have to talk about it anymore because a
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    black man was president and of course
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    how can we have a racism problem when a
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    black man is president which of course
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    is not something we would say about
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    sexism in Pakistan just because a woman
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    benazir bhutto became the head of that
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    country not once but twice it's not
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    something we would say about Great
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    Britain just because Margaret Thatcher
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    became the head of state
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    on several occasions it's not something
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    we would say about Germany or Ireland or
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    Israel or India or the Philippines all
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    of which have had female heads of state
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    we wouldn't say sexism was dead in those
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    places we wouldn't say misogyny and
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    patriarchy had been eradicated there but
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    in this country that is sort of what we
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    said for eight years about race and
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    racism just because a man of color was
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    in the White House so for eight years
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    it's been like pulling teeth man it's
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    like holding people's hands to convince
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    them that racism is the thing okay
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    here's the good news in this bad moment
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    we don't have to convince people of that
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    anymore
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    right the hand holding the teeth pulling
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    right we don't have to do that now
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    because it's a little more obvious to
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    people now never underestimate the
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    ability of white folks to miss stuff
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    though right so I'm not saying that
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    everybody sees it I'm just saying I
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    think it's more obvious now and the good
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    news if there is some good news is that
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    we don't have to do the 101 right the
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    good news if there is some good news is
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    that we now have enough evidence the
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    resurgence of overt racism not only in
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    our politics but around our country the
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    resurgence and continuation really of
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    systemic injustice ice raids on folks
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    that have done nothing to nobody talk of
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    building walls but only on this border
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    never this board are only this border
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    never that border because we're not
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    worried about crafty Canadian sneaking
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    in to take advantage of our health care
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    system I suppose so we have all of this
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    overt resurgence of Islamophobia overt
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    resurgence of the other ring of those
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    who appear and seem or pray or speak
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    differently than the dominant group so
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    unlike the last eight years where we
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    were in this sort of intermission period
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    right we're sort of back to the
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    continuation of a long-standing
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    tradition now some of y'all may remember
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    back in the day some of the older folks
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    in the room will remember back when
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    Sunday football NFL football used to
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    only be on CBS
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    so before Fox had a license to show
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    games and it was just just CBS and they
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    were usually two games a day now I live
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    in the central time zone so when the
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    central time zone I don't know about out
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    here but it was 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock
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    and the 3 o'clock game if you were on
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    the east coast or in the central time
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    zone would always bleed over into the 6
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    o'clock hours when 60 minutes comes on
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    right and so what would happen now if
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    you're on the west coast they would show
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    it in real time you know because y'all
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    were behind a couple hours and so you
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    could see it live it didn't interrupt 60
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    minutes but if you were on the east
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    coast or in central time it would bleed
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    over and about 6:15 the game would end
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    right and the announcer would come in
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    and the voice-over would say and now
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    back to your regularly scheduled
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    programming right that's sort of what
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    the election of Donald Trump is y'all
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    just so you know it is back to your
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    regularly scheduled programming it's not
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    something new it's not a break with
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    tradition folks that are trippin on the
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    election of Donald Trump
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    like somehow this is a deviation from
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    America's norm that this is somehow some
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    unique horrible break with the history
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    of the country no the glitch was the
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    eight years of the Obama administration
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    this is back to your regularly scheduled
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    programming the history of politicians
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    scapegoating black and brown folks
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    blaming them for problems that they
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    didn't create and then getting votes on
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    the basis of that that's not new Donald
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    Trump didn't create that didn't invent
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    that that's been going on for four
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    hundred years back to the colonial
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    period before we even were a country so
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    the first lesson is don't assume that
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    what's happened all the sudden is a new
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    thing don't be shocked by it this is
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    normal for America welcome to your
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    country right is what this really is all
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    about we have to start with that and we
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    have to understand the past and how the
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    past connects to the present so that we
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    can understand this isn't a unique break
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    with history and the reason it's
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    important it's not just an academic
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    point if you want to fight injustice you
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    have to know the injustice that you're
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    up against and if you think that it's a
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    new thing if you think the monster in
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    the room is new and unique it becomes
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    disempowering because you don't know how
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    to fight that monster if you understand
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    that we've seen this monster before that
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    we've seen this movie before that
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    there's really nothing new about this
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    then you can take lessons from our
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    history about how to resist and figure
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    out how to do that again you see so we
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    don't want to build up the monster into
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    something bigger than it is we don't
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    want to underestimate it but we also
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    don't want to give it more power than it
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    deserves we have to dissect it and we
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    have to understand its continuity not
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    its unique rupture with the history of
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    this country so let's talk about that
Tags
  • racismo
  • optimismo
  • historia
  • Donald Trump
  • injustiza
  • loita
  • perspectiva
  • esperanza
  • minorías
  • sociedade