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[https://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8911573/racism-slavery-mass-incarceration by German Lopez 8/7/15 Vox] | [https://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8911573/racism-slavery-mass-incarceration by German Lopez 8/7/15 Vox] | ||
America has a long history of systemic racism: From the dehumanization of black people to justify slavery to the policies of segregation and mass incarceration that followed emancipation, the country has always made it difficult for many minorities to rise out of their literal and figurative shackles. | America has a long history of systemic racism: From the dehumanization of black people to justify slavery to the policies of segregation and mass incarceration that followed emancipation, the country has always made it difficult for many minorities to rise out of their literal and figurative shackles. | ||
=====This is how systemic racism is hampering progress around the world===== | |||
[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/09/systemic-racism-economic-progress/ by IMF Blog 16/9/20 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | |||
As protests spread worldwide, many began to shift focus from solidarity with Black Americans to racial injustice within their own countries. Adama Traoré. João Pedro Matos Pinto. David Dungay, Jr. Different names from different countries, but still victims whose deaths have forced reexamination of the global presence of systemic racism and sent demonstrators into the streets to demand better. | |||
