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Clint Smith

American Writer

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If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is. Clint Smith

Faith People Country Our Those Able Only Share Empathy Come Like Misunderstand Same Then Us Who Extend

The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world. Clint Smith

To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society. Clint Smith

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage. Clint Smith

Walk Inside Someone Cage Around Still

Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter. Clint Smith

You Chapter Oppression Disappear Because Just Just Because Decided Us Teach

Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice? Clint Smith

You Voice Soapbox Your Who Ever Needed

When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not. Clint Smith

Fear Matter Black Others Say Tell Must Worthy Simply Because Without Existing Affirm Us Many Lives Things

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded. Clint Smith

Opportunity Way Significant Chasm Factors Most Schools Educational Contributing

In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from. Clint Smith

School Every Assumption Ways Pretense Make False Very Child Same Places Choice Choices Notion Choose Many Set

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. Clint Smith

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures. Clint Smith

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As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. Clint Smith

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I think about the history of racism in this country all the time. Clint Smith

Time History Racism Country Think About The History Of

I've been a follower of Arsenal Football Club since I was ten years old. Clint Smith

Old Follower Club Ten Ten Years Football Since Been Years Arsenal

So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms. Clint Smith

Family Down Our Shaped Like Passed Tradition Often Family Tradition

'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives. Clint Smith

Work Teacher Me Problems Our Pretense Shape Students Instead Talk False Being Confront Apolitical Should Teachers Lives Reject

While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research demonstrates that young people in general, regardless of their background, experience profound benefits from attending integrated schools. Clint Smith

Experience People Benefits Young Research Considerable Background Diverse General Color Disadvantaged Students Attending Academic Most Schools Integrated Often Regardless While Young People Poor Receive Profound

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