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Feeling Like A Tourist: Being Black In New England [NPR]

ramou:

Many residents here have never known a person of color. Some want to; others do not. Problem is, when I leave my own small town, it’s impossible to know which type I will encounter.

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    As a Southern white female who has spent 5 years in college a la Hartford, CT- a meeting place of several thousand...
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    @Bottlegoose needs to read this and comment.
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    I’ve bolded some really, really relevant bits, but read the entire conversation! I know Tumblr has probably made it...
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    [Previous posts snipped,...And then, there’s also this ^^^ Which is far more to the point...
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    Now you know it is impossible to let POC talk about the reality of their lives without interjecting a defense of...
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    uhh yeah, its full of liberals. the “not racist” racist kind. this better be a POC talmbout “this is exaggeration”....
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    listened to this on...work today. A bit shocking.
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    wow reblogging because I hear this a lot and I think it’s really sad
  40. vanillaandlavender reblogged this from bad-dominicana and added:
    ^ Northampton is the shizzzz and yeah, this is like painfully relevant to my life right now. I didn’t really feel this...
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    and that is what i learned there. i met this girl the other day, from pakistan, and she was saying how she’d always...
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    All those fucking comments are just UGH ‘let me comment on an article about a black person’s experiences and make it...
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    The first problem with New England is too many white people; this is also the second, third and fourth problem (the...
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