basquebromance
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I find the solutions for white communities to be very painful, because it’s very painful for a community to understand and have, go through this, like you can be, the idea that you can be poor and benefit from the color of your skin does not compute for a lot of people.
And going through that realization is very painful or even just economically for people that are that were born with silver spoons, it’s very painful to admit that you had advantages
"And we can all — almost every single person this country can acknowledge some privilege of some type, you know? I’m a cisgender woman. You know, I will never know the trauma of feeling like I’m not born in the right body, and that that is a privilege that I have no matter how poor my family was when I was born. But it’s really hard for some people to admit. It’s part of this weird American dream mythology that we have, that for a lot of, in a lot of circumstances isn’t as true or isn’t as clearly communicated as we’d like for it to be, or we wish it were." - AOC
She's a "cisgendered woman" — I'm sure the people of Appalachia feel her pain.
Podcast Special: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Her First Weeks in Washington
And going through that realization is very painful or even just economically for people that are that were born with silver spoons, it’s very painful to admit that you had advantages
"And we can all — almost every single person this country can acknowledge some privilege of some type, you know? I’m a cisgender woman. You know, I will never know the trauma of feeling like I’m not born in the right body, and that that is a privilege that I have no matter how poor my family was when I was born. But it’s really hard for some people to admit. It’s part of this weird American dream mythology that we have, that for a lot of, in a lot of circumstances isn’t as true or isn’t as clearly communicated as we’d like for it to be, or we wish it were." - AOC
She's a "cisgendered woman" — I'm sure the people of Appalachia feel her pain.
Podcast Special: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Her First Weeks in Washington