Melissa Harris-Perry, rape survivor, sends an open letter to Richard Mourdock
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“Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it. Then it becomes racialized, demonized and stigmatized.”
—Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman“I feel like talking always brings us closer to understanding, rather than dividing us. It can be tough, it can be a little nauseating, we don't always have the right vocabulary to talk across our differences, but the talking is always better than the ignoring.”
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Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of political science at Tulane University on talking about racism