i wish
it’s cruelty
Racism is cruelty, what else can it be? Sometimes it is cruelty enabled by privilege & ignorance. But in such a dramatically unequal world, isn’t it our own responsibility to find out our areas of ignorance, our areas of privilege, and keep educating them?
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