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#1 I was 16 years old when I met Jake. I was black, and he was white. We started dating, and his family rejected me because of my race. They were willing to throw their own son out of their home and onto the streets like garbage to teach him and others a lesson about what must never come of having been the first generation in his family to go to a racially integrated school.

#2 Racism is a complex of behavior and explanatory stories that allows some people to assert power over others. It is not natural or biological, but it is a result of the social construction of racialized bodies, which is to say, the idea and practice of people being assigned racial labels that sit in a relative hierarchy of worth.

#3 I learned that the war to end white supremacy had not ended, and that it would only take a moment of judgment based on character instead of color for people to start seeing each other as unlovable.

#4 I learned that summer that racism is a deep and pervasive cultural conditioning that groups people into categories and places them at a distance to obscure our intertwined destinies.

Summary of Rhonda V. Magee's The Inner Work of Racial Justice

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