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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 19:21:05 JST StillIRise1963

   I find it interesting that now, after all these years of total fucking denial, white Americans are like “yeah, this fucking country is really racist, always has been.” YOU DID NOT say this before.🙄

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     obscurestar (obscurestar@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 19:21:03 JST obscurestar

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     • Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸

     @realtegan @StillIRise1963 It bothers me how blind I was to it as a child. I grew up in a white flight exo suburb in rural Oklahoma. TV and school lead me to believe it was in the past, only a few olds still did it. I was blind to my mother talking about 'those people' and 'welfare queens' because my uncles and grandfather threw around the n-word with delight. And even when I figured that out, I was naive enough to think it was better outside a shithole red state because racism is so stupid.

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     Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 (realtegan@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 19:21:04 JST Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸

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     @StillIRise1963
     When I was a child, I thought racism was a southern thing. It wasn't until I got out of suburbia I became truly aware of how immersed I was in it - how it tainted *everything* around me. I breathed it in unthinking, because we could point at "history" and say, "oh, it was bad back then!" and think the problem had been solved.

     Once I became aware, I realized just how much I didn't know. And I still don't. I learn more constantly.

     Now I just try to learn, listen, & hope to help.

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