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When social justice groups become dominated by those they aim to help

Our activist group has been working on racial justice for three years but all the Black and brown members have gradually left and now it's mostly white people talking about how to help communities of color, and I don't think we've noticed what happened.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Organizations can reproduce the very exclusions they oppose while remaining convinced of their good intentions.

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