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This personal encounter with institutionalized racism altered my relationship with reading forever.
In the historic patterns of racism and sexism that have shaped our history and still infect our society today.
Priya Vulchi: Four years ago, we really thought we understood racism.
Just like many of you here today, we had experienced and heard stories about race, about prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping and we were like, "We get it, racism, we got it, we got it."
PV: And second, the mind gap: an inability to understand the larger, systemic ways in which racism operates.
It fails to recognize that for many people who don't understand racism the problem is not a lack of knowledge to talk about the pain of white supremacy and oppression, it's that they don't recognize that that pain exists at all.
We can't truly grasp Ronnie's situation without understanding how things like unjust laws and biased policing systematic racism has created the disproportionate incarceration rates over time.
We wouldn't have completely understood how racism is embedded in the framework of everything around us, because we would stay narrowly focused on people's isolated experiences.
Or shifting the power in her classroom to her students by learning to listen to their experiences of racism and poverty.
What else? Sexism, racism and poverty affect gun ownership and gun-related fatalities.
That machine doesn't care about the environment, about racism, about all these issues that make this life worse for all of us, and so the government does have a role to take resources from more productive uses, or from richer sources, and give them to other sources.
If you think about the issues our parents tried to solve in the 20th century, issues like racism, or sexism, or the issue that we've been fighting in this century, homophobia, those are hard issues.
Years of research in Redding, Pennsylvania led her to write this play about the deindustrialization of Pennsylvania: what happened when steel left, the rage that was unleashed, the tensions that were unleashed, the racism that was unleashed by the loss of jobs.
Everyone who participates in this global exchange of ideas, whether it's here in this room or just outside this room or online or locally, where everybody lives, everyone who stands up to injustice and inequality, everybody who stands up to those who preach racism rather than empathy, dogma rather than critical thinking, technocracy rather than democracy, everyone who stands up to the unchecked power, whether it's authoritarian leaders, plutocrats hiding their assets in tax havens, or powerful lobbies protecting the powerful few.
We're not just dealing with the residue of systemic racism.
We have environmental racism.
The stealth aspect of racism is part of its power.
Racism has the power to hide, and when it hides, it's kept safe because it blends in.
I have a realization that white supremacy is there, but the biggest force of white supremacy is not the KKK, it's the normalization of systemic racism.
If we look at systemic racism and acknowledge that it's sown into the very fabric of who we are as a country, then we can actually do something about the intentional segregation in our schools, neighborhoods and workplaces.
Incidentally, black and latino LGBT folks were at the forefront of this rebellion, and it's a really interesting example of the intersection of our struggles against racism, homophobia, gender identity and police brutality.
And he called his top assistant to him and asked, "Where would you say, in this region, racism is most virulent?"
And we've got to be willing to not shelter our children from the ugliness of racism when black parents don't have the luxury to do so, especially those who have young black sons.
I was settling in a new country, I was dealing with racism and discrimination, English is my third language, and then there it was."
And the thing that I'm single-minded about is racism.
And the reason I'm single-minded about racism is because I know single-mindedness can destroy it.
But fortunately, in the middle of this, Davidson got a new president, and that president was single-minded about racism, too.
Business can dismantle racism.
Now, I'm aware that diversity is bigger than race, and racism is bigger than America.
That can happen if business gets single-minded about racism.
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