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Earlier this week, two women were eating at an Applebee’s in Independence, Missouri when their server called the police on them.

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Three employees in a Des Moines Old Navy were recently fired for wrongly accusing one of their customers of theft. Why? Because the employees were convinced the black customer was trying to steal their merchandise.

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I keep a beard because if I was white, no one would question it or treat it or me otherwise. But because I’m brown, everyone suddenly pays attention.

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How my experience with the protests in Cleveland demonstrate racial profiling by the police.

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If you’ve ever had any doubts that White privilege is real and not just something people say to piss you off, reading tweets from the Twitter #CrimingWhileWhite will certainly erase those doubts.

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Racism in any situation other than the three I’ve listed here will result in a stern talking-to from Rachel Maddow and the loss of your job or your basketball team.

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Gay men get sexually assaulted, too.

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The 4th Amendment should be acknowledged regardless of race. That should be the reason ‘stop and frisk’ is illegal, not because only a certain segment of the population is being exposed to it.

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Racial minorities are being targeted, stopped, called names, roughed up, and threatened — and for no legitimate reason.

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There’s all kinds of street privilege afforded to you depending on who you are.