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It's absolutely pitch black, because photons cannot reach the average depth of the ocean, which is 12,000 feet.

I have found now in communities as varied as Jewish indie start-ups on the coasts to a woman's mosque, to black churches in New York and in North Carolina, to a holy bus loaded with nuns that traverses this country with a message of justice and peace, that there is a shared religious ethos that is now emerging in the form of revitalized religion in this country.

I'm not supposed to care when black youth are harassed by police, because my white-looking Jewish kids probably won't ever get pulled over for the crime of driving while black.

It's the price that I and so many others pay for learning while black.

Just this last spring, when four retirees and two taxi drivers were arrested in the Republic of Georgia for trying to sell nuclear materials for 200 million dollars, they demonstrated that the black market for this stuff is alive and well.

So I tried to walk around him, and as I did that, he stopped me and he was staring at me, and he spit in my face, and he said, "Get out of my way you little black bitch, you little Paki bitch, go back home where you came from."

Even as the believers gather, the painters in the Coliseum sign room are adding to the pantheon, carefully lettering 'VISICALC' in giant black on yellow.

And my job is to help to tell stories that challenge mainstream narratives about what it means to be black or a Muslim or a refugee or any of those other categories that we talk about all the time.

You know the kind: there's a white cop and a black cop, or maybe a messy cop and an organized cop.

In certain parts of the country, particularly the Deep South, the rates of mother and infant death for black women actually approximate those rates in Sub-Saharan African.

Even nationally, black women are four times more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than white women.

For the last decade as a doula turned journalist and blogger, I've been trying to raise the alarm about just how different the experiences of women of color, but particularly black women, are when it comes to pregnancy and birth in the US.

Even middle-class black women still have much worse outcomes than their middle-class white counterparts.

Consider this: immigrants, particularly black and Latina immigrants, actually have better health when they first arrive in the United States.

But here's the thing: this problem, that racism is making people of color, but especially black women and babies, sick, is vast.

Her clients, most of whom are black, Haitian and Latina, deliver at the local hospital.

Remember those statistics I told you, that black women are more likely to give birth too early, to give birth to low birth weight babies, to even die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth?

Typically, we talk about race in terms of black and white issues.

It's almost as if my mother, when I was growing up, said, "We will not be those black people."

So to claim that we're post-race when we have yet to grapple with the impact of race on black people, Latinos or the indigenous is disingenuous.

Time has a history, and so do black people.

This idea, that black people have had no impact on history, is one of the foundational ideas of white supremacy.

Now, we also see this idea that black people are people either alternately outside of the bounds of time or stuck in the past, in a scenario where, much as I'm doing right now, a black person stands up and insists that racism still matters, and a person, usually white, says to them, "Why are you stuck in the past?

We have a black president.

Take, for instance, when Black Lives Matter protesters go out to protest unjust killings of black citizens by police, and the pictures that emerge from the protest look like they could have been taken 50 years ago.

So today, white people continue to control the flow and thrust of history, while too often treating black people as though we are merely taking up space to which we are not entitled.

Shortened life span according to zip code is just one example of the ways that time and space cohere in an unjust manner in the lives of black people.

Children who are born in New Orleans zip code 70124, which is 93 percent white, can expect to live a full 25 years longer than children born in New Orleans zip code 70112, which is 60 percent black.

In the future, do you see black people?

Do black people have a future?

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