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Beverly Peele, Naomi Campbell, Isamar Gonzalez, Tyra Banks, Lorraine Pascale, and Veronica Webb, Todd Oldham Spring/Summer 1995

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Ending Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement

I thought I was the only one who didn't like the remix. Even the fake fan-made remixes before were trash. Different energy, the lyrics doesn't match, the way she raps doesn't match. It's just so unnecessary maybe for a different single but not say so

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Caroline Tompkins

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Niko Riam By Carlijn Jacobs For Vogue Netherlands March 2019

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Young Asians and Latinos push their parents to acknowledge racism amid protests

The children and grandchildren of immigrants have joined the Black Lives Matter movement, but they often have to explain to their parents why change is necessary

“The argument began as soon as Charlie Mai and his brother, Henry, announced their plans to attend a Black Lives Matter protest that evening in D.C. Their father was not having it.

Glenn Mai, a retired FBI agent, had been raised in Dallas by Chinese immigrants who had taught him that he would succeed if he just worked hard.

“Chinese culture is very much about working within the system,” Glenn, 54, said, and during decades in law enforcement, he’d come to believe the system worked.

His son, Charlie, 24, took a different view. “My father deeply believes that everyone has a fair chance, which is just basically untrue,” said Charlie, an artist who fled New York for his family’s home in Northern Virginia because of the pandemic. “It’s very Asian to me, that view that if everyone just works hard, then everything will turn out right for them. I’m definitely a little reactive to that because I think that’s delusional.”

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when are we gonna realize that these change dot org petitions are typically nothing more than performative activism that allows people who are unaffected (usually white people) to do the bare minimum and then pat ourselves on the back for being so involved and doing the right thing and standing up for people?