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“Meaning, my argument has really nothing to do with your own self-esteem or self-worth, but more to do with your feelings and uncertainty of others and whether they accept you as a person. And furthermore, as a person of intelligence and self respect.”
That’s how structural racism works. One views yourself as less than, because media, culture, legal, social realms identify one that way…it is an upward battle. You think you are disregarded because you are female? That’s how sexism works. Uneducated? That’s how classism works. It’s the same idea. The structural “isms” work that way.
One can be uneducated and sound in the motherwit…education doesn’t mean college. It is listening and learning, and that’s what this forum is about from both sides.