Tag: america
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For All My Dreamers It’s Time We See the American Dream For its Alarming Fraudulence
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Do you feel that? That old familiar pain re-emerging from the crevices of your DNA? It was once so easy to believe what others told me to be true about America growing up. That this was a space of opportunity. I was the outcome of a dream believed by someone…
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Fidel Castro’s Legacy Is A Reminder of What Seems Lost on Today’s Liberal
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Did you think that liberation and freedom was easy to attain? Consider checking your privilege and enlighten yourself on how this world actually works…
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#CallEmOut: dream hampton Gets Dragged
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Man. What I’ve witnessed on Twitter these past two days have been juicy at best, but disappointing at worst. I love everything about the #BlackLivesMatter movement because I’ve longed for a movement like this for some time. It felt like we sat idly while injustice took root in this country’s…
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SC Votes to Take the Confederate Flag Down, But Will They Drop Bree Newsome’s Charges?
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South Carolina lawmakers have finally voted to remove the confederate flag from their capital. This is great news, but I can’t help but feel underwhelmed because it is just common sense to me. To be honest, I am trying to understand why the confederate flag hasn’t been banned nationally altogether.…
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Millenials: It is 2015 NOT 1865! Black Churches Are Being Targeted & We’re Allowing It
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It’s time that we admit that this is 2015. Everything that is happening in this country and around the world is happening in 2015. Not 1965, not 1865. It is happening right now. Yes, the same acts of terrorism (via white supremacy) that has been happening to black people, LGBT…