Actually Existing People
Is the world changing, or is it just the lenses and frames we use to define it?
It was sometime in my twenties when I first became aware of the fact that our news media provided descriptions and qualifiers for some people, that tended not to be used for other people. If a man being reported on was Black, he was identified as such; if he was White, race wasn’t mentioned. If a woman was being reported on, her clothing and hair were d…
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