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Signe K.'s avatar

"The question is why these categories deserve to mean anything at all." This is the most important line in the entire article. Humans are obsessed with being able to check boxes on a variety of characteristics (race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc), and that Either/Or thinking gets us into trouble. It is the urge to compete and to win, to be superior, and to that end someone must be branded as inferior. People obsessed with winning need to calm down so we can celebrate equality, kindness, character. Let's try winning at that instead.

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Raney's avatar

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this gorgeous and mind-blowing piece that touches on historical, sociological and even scientific matters. I am moved by your meticulous research and proud to have chosen to be your supporter.

To lose this painful yet precious and still emerging knowledge of our shared history brought 2 light thru the popes African-American ancestry would be a tragedy.

I look forward to your future work with anticipation & solidarity and wish strength to your pen.

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