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Racism Vs Classism
Classism prepared me for racism. One attacks your skin color, and the other goes after your social and economic status. Both are an injustice to humanity.
Reading: What Do You See When You See Black Skin? by Jesse Wilson
This message is essential, even more so today, because we need to fight and take back our identities which so often are bestowed upon us before we have an opportunity to shine. As any Person of Colour knows, there is no denying that white supremacy dictates there is a category or a box for you. Jesse Wilson
I am a person of color, and in my country, racism won’t thrive, but classism has. And I wonder, which is worse?
According to: https://www.nccj.org/classism-0
The institutional, cultural and individual set of practices and beliefs that assign differential value to people according to their socioeconomic class; and an economic system that creates excessive inequality and causes basic human needs to go unmet.
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