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  • Jul 7, 2016

Death in Black and White

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By Michael Eric Dyson, The New York Times

In the wake of the Dallas shootings and the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Dyson comments on the disparate ways in which black and white Americans understand racial violence.

“Whiteness is blindness. It is the wish not to see what it will not know.”

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