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“A lot of people unsee a lot of things, every day. Think about it. Every day you go around, stepping over some guy out on the street, outside the Starbucks, or at the park, or on the sidewalk, you just unsee it. Or those cops pulling over that black guy or brown guy or that anything-but-white guy…” quote by Andrea Portes
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““A lot of people unsee a lot of things, every day. Think about it. Every day you go around, stepping over some guy out on the street, outside the Starbucks, or at the park, or on the sidewalk, you just unsee it. Or those cops pulling over that black guy or brown guy or that anything-but-white guy. You just kind of unsee it, right? And then, one day, you just kind of forget you're even unseeing anything at all. It's just subconscious. It's just noise. It's just normal. But then, sometimes, a person comes along or a thing comes along, and it jars you. It snaps you out of it. And all of a sudden you can see again. That's when you have to make the choice. Am I gonna go back? Or am I gonna keep seeing that? Because if I keep seeing that, that thing right in front of me that is so unjust, eventually I might have to do something about it.””

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