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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by naijaboiler on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:01PM (#42662280)
As a person who has been black elsewhere and black in America, the biggest advantage of being foreign born black person is having grown up in an environment where black excellence is not exceptional, it just expected.

In the US, inferiority of blackness is so deeply ingrained and entrenched. it's like air, we (blacks, white and everything in between) have all breathed in and fully internalized that we don't even realize its there.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by kragen on Saturday January 11, 2025 @03:35AM (#42664353)
That rings true to me. I couldn't see it until I'd moved to Argentina for a few years, which is also very racist but in a way sufficiently different that I could see the absurdity of the US system of racism from the outside. Recognizing my own blindness to my own subconscious racism makes me totally disregard the opinions of people who have lived in the US all their lives on this matter, dangerous as that is.
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