Liz Dwyer

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This Black Lives Matter Founder Still Has Hope For America

But after Charlottesville, there are no more excuses for not getting involved.

Nearly two weeks have passed since white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others. And for some Americans, if President Donald Trump could just get his apology right — or if social justice activists would stop stirring things up — then things could get back to normal. Never mind that in America, “normal” day-to-day racism means people of color are denied job interviews because they have ethnic-sounding names, their children are funneled into the school-to-prison pipeline, and they’re stopped and frisked by law enforcement.

[quote position="left" is_quote="true"]These are not American values.[/quote]

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