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Race

Hi all. I’m a bit behind on blogging; I still haven’t written about my friend Elyssa’s visit or about being a resource volunteer at group 44’s PST. But, that can wait. What I feel that I need to write about today is the current state of affairs in the USA and my thoughts. I’ve sat by quietly and followed the current events through news articles and friends’ facebook posts for the past few months, feeling a bit too out of the loop to make any commentary. However, I can’t sit idly anymore. The current state of affairs is way too messed up to keep quiet about. The institutionalized racism that is clearly rampant in the USA truly is mind-boggling to me. From numerous police shootings of black men to the discrimination against black women ( www.revelist.com/viral/Tameka-cross-delta-doctor-discrimination/5240 as one example), it is really unbelievable and out of control. It truly sickens me and shows me how much work we still really have to do as a society to overcome history. I was lu