The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
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These young women have had four years of very special space . . . . safe space. But when they graduate, they will begin to deal on a daily basis, all day long, month after month, year after year, with the realities that still haunt our nation.
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If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.
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