MJ Adia
1 min readMay 30, 2021

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Historically many people who have made great gains in the civil rights also would have been those with more social and economic benefits. Not all, of course, but there is a link between having access to certain social platforms in order to make change occur. This is why the education system at least in the US tries to prevent people from accurately learning history. Many revolutionaries, if you will, came from a middle to upper social class. My point being is that Marion Gray, we don't know much about her personal economic situation, but in any case, this begs the question. What is the "correct" way to respond to racism? I don't mean that in a snarky way, I am truly curious. Certainly, since you rightly said, we live the affects of historical racism to this day, how can that be separated, or at least, how can we critique people who are voicing they experience that?

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MJ Adia
MJ Adia

Written by MJ Adia

Black-Filipina. Lived in Peru for 5 years. LICSW, dancer, meditator. Writes about multiculturalism, cinema, race, social issues.

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