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Why whites must join fight for black justice: Voices
... Trayvon’s death made me sick. But as a white person in upstate New York, I wasn’t sure of my place in responding to such a grossly unjust, racialized death.
I had been organizing for years in my hometown of Buffalo and the surrounding region on issues of environmental justice. It wasn't until after the death Michael Brown, a young black male, at the hands of a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., that I got off the sidelines and took action ...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...ck-lives-matter-activism-white-role/92426834/
(Photo: Kelly Jordan, USA TODAY)
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Why whites must join fight for black justice: Voices
... Trayvon’s death made me sick. But as a white person in upstate New York, I wasn’t sure of my place in responding to such a grossly unjust, racialized death.
I had been organizing for years in my hometown of Buffalo and the surrounding region on issues of environmental justice. It wasn't until after the death Michael Brown, a young black male, at the hands of a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., that I got off the sidelines and took action ...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...ck-lives-matter-activism-white-role/92426834/
(Photo: Kelly Jordan, USA TODAY)
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