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Ramesh A Nagarajah
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Nov 3, 2020

Voting is our lowest civic duty

I’ve often heard it said that voting is our highest civic duty. I would argue instead, that it is our lowest, as it requires the least from us. It does not ask that we are informed, although ideally we care enough to be. It does not ask that we are…

Voting

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Voting is our lowest civic duty
Voting is our lowest civic duty

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·Jun 4, 2020

Reflections From a Token Black Friend

On structural racism, implicit bias, and what white people do (and don’t) say — I am regularly the only black kid in the photo. I have mastered the well-timed black joke, fit to induce a guilty “you thought it but couldn’t say it” laugh from my white peers. I know all the words to “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers. I am a token black…

Black Lives Matter

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Reflections From a Token Black Friend
Reflections From a Token Black Friend
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