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"If Jim does not kill me before he takes a second look at me,"
She sold her hair and that's showing how much she love him. At the same time she scared that he will get mad
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"If Jim does not kill me before he takes a second look at me,"
she is scared that he will get mad when he sees her hair cut.
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"If Jim does not kill me before he takes a second look at me,"
she's talking to herself
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"If Jim does not kill me before he takes a second look at me,"
the speaker is Della
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- Nov 2021
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And racial discrimination doesn’t exist just within the military rank-and-file.
This is show that discrimination not just in one place, it's everywhere like the Army, Air Force and Navy for example.
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And racial discrimination doesn’t exist just within the military rank-and-file. Every year, civilians working in the financial, technical and support sectors of the Army, Air Force and Navy file hundreds of complaints alleging race and skin color discrimination, according to an AP analysis of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data.
discrimination everywhere against race and skin color
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we initially experience racism or discrimination in the military, we feel blindsided
They are talking about how them feel when they get discriminated and what they believe.
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“For Blacks and minorities, when we initially experience racism or discrimination in the military, we feel blindsided,” Davis said. “We’re taught to believe that it’s the one place where everybody has a level playing field and that we can make it to the top with work that’s based on merit.”
racism and discrimination in the military.
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Joyce Jiang, Amanda Chen and Lily Zheng, all 11th graders in New York City, thanks so much for opening your hearts and your lives to us. We're very grateful.
Joyce Jiang, Amanda Chen and Lily Zheng
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my mom is fully responsible for myself and my 8-years-old sister.
mom
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Lily Zheng, let me raise something with you.
Lily Zheng
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Amanda, it's totally your business, but may I ask why you don't talk to your father about this?
Amanda
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I don't talk to my dad about this, but I talk to a lot of my friends
friends
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Their winning entry included the voices of Joyce Jiang and Amanda Chen, 11th graders who spoke about harassment.
Joyce Jiang and Amanda Chen
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in fact, including the winner of NPR's 2020 Student Podcast Challenge was The Dragon Kids, which came out of Public School
Dragon Kids
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- Oct 2021
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until it was burned down during the protests
do you think people did it on purpose?
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trauma
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
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toil
work extremely hard or incessantly.
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who
Safia Munye
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We were just trying to do what we could to help our community,' said [Hafsa] Islam, who helped treat wounded protesters.
this is positive because they are trying to help people out.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is still raging during the protests, and as we've reported, black people are dying from the virus at disproportionate rates.
this is a negative thing.
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She
Elizabeth Hinton
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George's life was more important. That man that got killed in the most inhumane way. I hope he gets justice.'
This can effects a lot of people of how he died.
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Police all over the country tear-gassed protesters, drove vehicles through crowds, opened fire with nonlethal rounds on journalists or people on their own property, and in at least one instance, pushed over an elderly man who was walking away with a cane
This can cause a lot of problems and it will not calm things down.
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it's important to pay attention to what police are doing during protests
this can solve a lot of problems.
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Minneapolis police shot and killed Jamar Clark, which ignited two weeks of protests.
I disagree, because this going to make the people more angry and it's not going to calm things down.
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people took to the streets after police shot and killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop in a nearby suburb, Falcon Heights.
I agree, because by doing this you can make a difference.
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This is hardly the first time that Minneapolis has erupted into protests about police brutality and the killings of black people.
This isn't the first time Minneapolis has seen rocked over police violence and the deaths of black people.
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This is hardly the first time that Minneapolis has erupted into protests about police brutality and the killings of black people.
This isn't the first time Minneapolis has seen erupted over police brutality and the killings of black people.
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This is hardly the first time that Minneapolis has erupted into protests about police brutality and the killings of black people.
This is hardly the first time that Minneapolis has rocked into demonstrations about police violence and the deaths of black people.
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Many protesters, including journalists, have captured police on tape pointing guns, shooting rubber bullets and tear gas at them.
Many demonstrators and reporters, have recorded police aiming guns at them and firing rubber bullets and tear gas.
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Many protesters, including journalists, have captured police on tape pointing guns, shooting rubber bullets and tear gas at them.
Many protesters and journalists, have captured police pointing guns at them and shooting rubber bullets and tear gas.
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Many protesters, including journalists, have captured police on tape pointing guns, shooting rubber bullets and tear gas at them.
Many demonstrators, including reporters, have recorded police on tape recordings aiming guns, firing rubber bullets and tear gas at them.
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That’s what it means to be brave. It’s an American virtue. We can feel encouraged to see it in action every day, and we should never stop pushing for more.
Do you think if people keep pushing for more it will make a difference?
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allocation
the action or process of allocating or distributing something.
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coalition
an alliance for combined action, especially a temporary alliance of political parties forming a government or of states.
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his
Saru Jayaraman
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He
Tom Colicchio
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Racial bias is often hidden, unintentional and systemic. That means that it is actually possible to create racist impact, even if there’s no easily identifiable racist behind the curtain.
this is true and positive
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The notion that racism is always intentional, individual and overt feeds the false assumption that colorblindness is then the appropriate solution.
this is negative
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That’s why we have to be able to ask explicit racial questions. Rather than avoiding racial difference, we should engage it, with the goal of creating actual equity in our workplaces, schools and all the other spaces in which we spend our lives.
this can be a good effect.
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First, we have to resist concluding that condemning racist slurs is all that is required to end discrimination.
this could be a solution
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In the food industry, for example, there is widely accepted racial hierarchy in high-end restaurants.
this could be a solution to accept everyone and stop discrimination
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Anyone walking into a three-star restaurant can see that often, the people who have speaking parts at the front of the house are white, while those working for lower wages in the back of the house are employees of color.
this what causes discrimination.
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Racial bias is often hidden, unintentional and systemic.
I agree, because if someone racist, he's not going to tell you "I'm racist".
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Racism has evolved over the past 50 years, and our collective understanding of what constitutes justice, how discrimination functions and how to best address it needs updating.
Over the last 50 years, racism has developed, and our shared understanding of what it means to be just, how discrimination works, and how to effectively combat it has to be updated as well.
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Racism has evolved over the past 50 years, and our collective understanding of what constitutes justice, how discrimination functions and how to best address it needs updating.
Over the last 50 years, racism has changed, and our common understanding of what constitutes justice, how prejudice works, and how to effectively combat it has to be updated as well.
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Racism has evolved over the past 50 years, and our collective understanding of what constitutes justice, how discrimination functions and how to best address it needs updating.
Racism has developed over the past 50 years, and our shared understanding of what it means to be just, how discrimination works and how to best discuss it needs updating.
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to achieve racial equity, we need to be able to do three things
We need to be able to do three things to accomplish racial justice.
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to achieve racial equity, we need to be able to do three things
We need to be able to do three things to achieve racial equity.
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to achieve racial equity, we need to be able to do three things
To accomplish racial justice, we need to be able to do three things
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