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Clint Smith
American
Writer
Black
Country
Life
People
Will
World
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School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
Clint Smith
School
Earnings
Rates
Higher
Greater
Graduation
Incarceration
Associated
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.
Clint Smith
Racism
Systemic
Takes
Always
Bullet
Blood
Whether
Toll
Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans.
Clint Smith
Women
Racism
Black
Men
Living
Threat
Seems
Reduce
Perpetual
Quite
Literally
Pervasive
The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.
Clint Smith
Education
Confidence
Benefits
Prison
Sense
Rekindle
Recidivism
Increasing
Rates
Purpose
Beyond
Also
Employment
Go
Lowering
To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral public policy. Public policy must account for the historic and intentional pillaging of resources experienced by black Americans.
Clint Smith
Black
Country
Resources
Has-Been
Must
Black Americans
Logic
Operate
Operating
Policy
Been
Historic
Account
American
Intentional
Experienced
Central
Public
Race
Centuries
Aspiration
Public Policy
Mechanism
Whose
In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.
Clint Smith
Music
Grief
Dance
Paradoxically
Somewhat
New
Dead
New Orleans
Celebration
Mourned
Public
Much
Hometown
Orleans
Spectacle
Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.
Clint Smith
Released
Frederick
Abolition
Seemed
Fantasy
Slaves
My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.
Clint Smith
Life
Me
Opportunities
Own
Unfair
Reconcile
My Own
Given
Poetry
Students
Had
How
Trying
Profoundly
While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.
Clint Smith
Black
States
Part
While
Means
United
United States
Violence
Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more despair.
Clint Smith
Sometimes
Girl
Just Be
Despair
About
Something
Poem
More
Jumping
Just
Should
Rope
It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.
Clint Smith
History
Important
Incredibly
Inequality
Understand
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
Clint Smith
Death
Practice
Penalty
Those
Both
Support
Ineffective
Accepting
Death Penalty
Flawed
Who
Fundamentally
It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.
Clint Smith
Death
Crime
Doubt
Indefensible
Penalty
Easy
About
Morally
Support
Principles
Death Penalty
Person
Sitting
Accused
Sustain
Chair
Harder
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.
Clint Smith
Mathematics
Class
Science
Reading
Consistently
Impact
More
Segregated
Students
Clear
Academic
Likely
Schools
Make
Integrated
Than
Often
Irrespective
Gains
Race
Social
Social Class
Ethnicity
Researchers
Found
The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.
Clint Smith
Women
People
Brilliant
Men
Fathers
Presidents
Wrestle
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Fact
Color
Also
Sort
Idols
Were
False
Up
Against
Prejudices
Deep
Many
Founding
Founding Fathers
Raise
When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.
Clint Smith
Me
Game
World
Unlucky
Win
Old
Victory
Focus
Other
Astonishing
Run
Athletic
Only
Push
Over
Years
Historic
Mexico
Cup
Germans
Effort
Against
Soccer
Aside
Interests
Team
Even
Each
World Cup
Resilient
Portugal
Thirteen
Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.
Clint Smith
You
Blackness
Remains
Take
Off
Coat
Silence is the residue of fear.
Clint Smith
Silence
Fear
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