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FACT CHECK: These images are not from Zamfara gold-mining sites

Recently, some pictures posted on the messaging platform WhatsApp were attributed to gold mining sites in Zamfara state. ....

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Fight Anti-Blackness with our Asian Parents


Fight Anti-Blackness with our Asian Parents
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“You can never date or marry a Black person.”
These words, or some version of them, may be familiar to you. They were spoken by my parents when they forbade me from attending a school formal with a Haitian American friend, and these words were repeated to my brother and myself throughout our young adult and adult life.
Growing up in New York one of the most diverse, yet highly segregated, metro areas in the United States I heard fellow Asian Americans use racist stereotypes to not only justify that our communities were simply too different to mix, but to also scapegoat, dehumanize and devalue Black people. The model minority myth made us think we were more hardworking, more white-adjacent, and more deserving of success. My father told me I caught lice from hanging out with too many Black girls, and my mother locked car doors, averted her eyes, and pulled me closer when Black men passed by. ....

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