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• Aquinas wired

  8 hours, 39 minutes ago

  I’m probably not doing enough now. But my blog has given me an opportunity to express my solidarity with…
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• Richard Davis

  10 hours, 41 minutes ago

  In reply to Aquinas wired:
  Enlighten us: what are you doing beyond posting on blogs to rid yourself of the virus of racism?…
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• Aquinas wired

  12 hours, 37 minutes ago
  To extend the metaphor, racism even exists dormant in asymtomatic white people. This is the result of the white…
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• Dennis Byrne

  12 hours, 42 minutes ago
  How do you know what “most white people” have or do?
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  The reason that most white people can be labeled as racist, Dennis is that on some level, most white people…
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