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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Wed Mar 25, 2015, 01:55 PM Mar 2015

Why We Can’t Just ‘Chill Out’ About Racism

http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/03/racism-is-not-over/

You’re not imagining it. When people suggest that racism is over, they’re ignoring a lot of undeniable truths.

Here’s a comic that brings reality back into the conversation about race.

With Love,
The Editors at Everyday Feminism

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Why We Can’t Just ‘Chill Out’ About Racism (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2015 OP

I have a question: The boy in the Redskins shirt - is he supposed to indicate a Native American? jwirr Mar 2015 #1

I think he's supposed to be a white guy in a Redskins shirt... cyberswede Mar 2015 #2

I hope so. What made me ask is because his skin in the picture in somewhere between brown and jwirr Mar 2015 #3

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

1. I have a question: The boy in the Redskins shirt - is he supposed to indicate a Native American?

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 02:37 PM

Mar 2015

Talk about racism. On the reservation we live on we also understand racism.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

2. I think he's supposed to be a white guy in a Redskins shirt...

Reply to jwirr (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 02:39 PM

Mar 2015

ironically displaying racism.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

3. I hope so. What made me ask is because his skin in the picture in somewhere between brown and