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“racism remained an issue, not because of their attitudes but because they lived in states whose elected officials passed overly permissive gun policies, rejected health care reform, undercut social safety net programs, and a host of other actions. In these and other instances, racism and racial resentment functioned at structural levels and in ways that had far broader effects than the kinds of racism that functions in people’s minds.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“Was it too soon for this? How did two studs have sex with each other”
― Bespoke: A Novella
― Bespoke: A Novella
“Meanwhile, black men who attempted to demonstrate their own open-carry rights were attacked and jailed rather than lauded as freedom-loving patriots.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“And go where? And with what money?” Honorine asked mildly. “You accepted the job I offered you because you’re all but penniless. Are you going to go back to that man? Why, he probably has his whore moved in already. Your parents are dead and they left you with nothing.” She leaned forward, her eyes fixed on Jemma. “Where will you go?”
― This Cursed House
― This Cursed House
“In 1996, Congress passed a ban on federally funded gun research. Legislators—lobbied heavily by the National Rifle Association—added a rider to the federal budget. That rider is known as the Dickey Amendment, and it stripped the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of funding for gun violence prevention research and stipulated that “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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