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Coming up in the Black and largely Protestant City of Detroit, it felt like a revolutionary act to abandon the church and organized religion as I did as a teenager in the mid-1990s. But I had little recourse: As soon as I developed some adult-adjacent sense, I looked around and realized that the milk was sour throughout the institution. - Dustin J. Seibert Read More
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Let’s be real, white ‘Karens’ come in varying degrees of extreme, but the most common form seems to be the type of white woman who goes out of her way to weaponize her privilege to cover up her own misdeeds. There was the Karen who went on a racist rampage while trying to steal from a grocery store or even the white woman who called the police on a Black man who was simply birdwatching from Central Park. - Noah A. McGee Read More