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Race in our feeds

7/6/2015

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It is important for white people to look at their experiences and deconstruct them, look into events and find their meaning, in order to become conscious of how race operates, writes anti-racist activist Chris Crass in this essay. 

One way race operates is through social media; through feeds and neighborhood listservs we find out about some restaurants and not others, some dentists and not others. Absolutely we hear the news about a white man shooting nine black people in a church, but we will, if we are white, not usually hear about a black-owned house painting or landscaping business. It's not that the people in our feeds are racist or discriminatory, but that race is a factor in the computer algorithms that create our feeds—it is one of the subtle ways race operates. 



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