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Chance the Rapper, aka the man who’s changing the world one step at a time, made headlines this week when he criticized Heineken for an advertisement that was “purposefully putting out noticeably racist ads so they can get more views.”

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Let’s just say he had it coming.

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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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A combination of growing older and being pushed outside of my high school forced me to mature and question my internal racism.

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There seems to be this mass assumption that The Black Lives Matter movement is about demeaning the work of police officers, when really, it has absolutely nothing to do with any particular occupation at all.

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It’s a privilege to only get your feelings hurt after being called a racist, rather than experiencing racism itself.

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You don’t have to be afraid to love someone that looks like you because love produces children, and children of your complexion get killed for no reason.

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As soon as you tell that racist joke, whisper to your friends about that other “crazy” religion, debate against equal rights or share that xenophobic post on Facebook, you are spreading the fear like a sickness.

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A sports fan is walking down the street repping their favorite sports team’s swag. They wear it proudly: the hat, maybe even an elaborate, limited-edition, team jersey. But what if their team is actually projecting negative stereotypes?

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This establishment of individuals (this fact is completely uncorroborated, it might be a computer system for all I know) has taken it upon itself to judge the movies of the past year with an unknown set of criterion and then, year after year, not give Leonardo DiCaprio a gold statue.