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> and giving oxygen to it helps propagate and give validity to it. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. If you actually care about fighting racism, you have to b
by autoexec 5y ago
> and giving oxygen to it helps propagate and give validity to it.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. If you actually care about fighting racism, you have to be able to see it. You have to be able to understand it. You have to be able to track it. Driving racist rhetoric underground, making it hard to follow what groups are being targeted or what lies are being told, making it more difficult to identify who is involved in racist groups, what their numbers are, and who is listening to them doesn't help fight racism. Racism exists, and we need to face it. We can't just hide it away so that we can feel better or pretend the problem is solved.
You can't fight an enemy you aren't allowed to see.
- ellopoppit 5y ago"Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
- _0ffh 5y agoAnd so today I learnt another great MLK quote, thank you!