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I’m so glad you republished this. SNORT! My favorite line *this* time is: “They worked in the upper tier of an inner-city after-school program that focused on underprivileged youth who are over-represented in the lower level of the school-to-prison pipeline.”

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I missed this the first time around and am amazed to think we're right back here again. . . As usual, BRAVO; I hollered, literally. But item 9 of the risk assessment--Which makes you more uncomfortable: racism or being called a racist?--gave me pause. That's such a real question. Would that the totality of the wypipo populous sought to answer it. . .

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I was crying about the state of my finances and now crying in laughter.

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From the other side of the Gulf of Cornwall. Thank you for writing this, I'm not familiar with your work but the two articles I've read are pithy and personally challenging (and humourous of course), a good antidote to complacency and denial.

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Going through the diagnosis questions, I paused at number 7. Most of the photographs and artwork in my house are either (white) family pictures, or landscapes. But then I looked up at the shelf in my dining room and saw the framed pictures of my son (white) my daughter (also white) and Samuel L. Jackson ( black) and breathed a sigh of relief.

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