“While growing up, I actually thought people didn't care what color you were. Racism is history, but it's real.”

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Meaning

The speaker reflects that his childhood view of race was naïve and that he later came to see racism as something rooted in the past but still present in reality. The quote contrasts an ideal belief in color-blindness with a more sobering understanding of discrimination.

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Originally said in English.

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About Randall Cunningham

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