People often have a hard time comprehending racist white women as dangerous, and that lack of understanding is harming people of color, especially black people, who have to deal with their racism.
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This isn’t an attack on zine creators if this were to be an attack the zines would’ve been named and called out. If zine creators consider this article to be an attack, step back and reevaluate why you’re actually angry. The point of this article wasn’t to bring down the zine community because there have been many other zines that have given black creators a voice in their product, not only in the present but also in the past. What zine creators should realize from this article is how they’ve contributed to the problem in the past and provide actual change.
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My friends and I were inspired to create our own safe space for people of colour at school, but the issue with white spaces is that they are the norm, and calling out the norms leads to anger from the majority group. It didn’t take more than a few hours before the school board reacted. I put my posters up on a Tuesday afternoon, and noticed their absence when I walked in on Wednesday morning.
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