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« Back to Glossary IndexIJEOMA OLUO
The framing around racism has always been there is a white person who doesn’t like people of color or a Klan member or someone, you know, who’s making their hatred and ignorance very obvious. But what’s actually been impacting our lives are systems that rely on subtle and not so subtle biases against people of color to disempower us and put us at risk. And so we’ve been fighting for job opportunities, for safety from violence, for equal education, for freedom from medical racism. And that is upheld not by how you love or don’t love people of color but by how you participate with our systems.