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Why even supportive relationships struggle with racial reality

My best friend is white and supports reparations in theory but gets defensive whenever I talk about my actual experiences with racism.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual agreement with justice does not automatically translate to emotional capacity for witnessing harm.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical and economic case?”

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