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Charles Clymer🏳️‍🌈 Mar 7
1/ Regarding my last rant, it might be helpful to give my background on living in a conservative environment, amid white supremacy… (thread)
Areeba Imam Apr 5
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I would like to add on my experience to this thread being a POC. I am an immigrant in this country but I come from a country where...
Areeba Imam Apr 5
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..if not race, then color of skin accounts for the social structure and class standing of an individual. I belong to a conservative family..
Areeba Imam Apr 5
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..that holds a mirror to many of the average white upper-middle class families in US. The only way I see for conservative society to see..
Areeba Imam Apr 5
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...reason is through education. US education system focuses entirely on achievements of white men in west. The diversifying of syllabuses..
Areeba Imam Apr 5
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..syllabus can ultimately lead to a generation growing up, realizing that internalized racism is destroying a pathway towards progress.
shelley May 26
3 decades (if planet survives) bi/multi-racial children will be majority in US. Will we unify? Or will $$ continue to be the TRUE divider?
Areeba Imam May 26
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I think one of the reasons for alliances with countries with dictatorship is wealth. We wouldn't be allies with KSA if it was a democracy.
Areeba Imam May 26
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Their monarchy encouraged extremism which allowed exploitation. Wealth will continue to play a role unless there is universal education rfrm