Work Hard, Play-by-the-Rules Black People Face Pervasive Racism
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6 min readApr 22, 2021
I recently saw a meme that said, “Only in America do you find a kid wearing $150 tennis shoes, drinking a $5 cup of coffee, typing on his $1,000 iPhone, complaining on social media about racism.”
Ahhhh, the empathy.
The meme follows numerous comments I’ve heard recently in some circles proclaiming that racism is overstated…
