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The Day "Woke" White Americans Fell Asleep
Wake up, White Liberals, Progressives, and Moderates.
It's morning in America.
A lot happened while we were sleeping.
This is not the nation we thought existed back on January 20th of 2009: likely the last time many of us were fully awake.
Back then, we basked in the warm glow of the arrival of a Black President and we grew comfortable, nestling down into a complacency that only the blind spots of privilege and false information provide.
The joy of that moment, and the recent civil and human rights wins became a slow-acting emotional sedative that slowly squeezed out the urgency from us; one…
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