Super-Save-A-Supremacist: How The Apologist Dangerously Upholds White Supremacy - Blavity

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Super-Save-A-Supremacist: How The Apologist Dangerously Upholds White Supremacy - Blavity

A a closer look at the white supremacist apologist and the ways in which they minimize racial trauma while upholding the culture of white supremacy.

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