Ally
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a person or organization that cooperates with or helps another in a particular activity
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Antiracism
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the policy or practice of opposing racism and promoting racial tolerance
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Antiracist
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a person who opposes racism and promotes racial tolerance
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Black Lives Matter
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a decentralized movement in the United States advocating for non-violent civil disobedience in protest against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against African-American people
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Defund the Police
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a slogan that supports divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources
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Discrimination
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the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex
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Police brutality
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legally defined as a civil rights violation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a subject. This includes, but is not limited to, bullying, physical or verbal harassment, physical or mental injury, property damage, and death
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Race
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a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society
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Racism
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prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized
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Racist
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a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another
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Slavery
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any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property. An enslaved person is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration
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Systemic racism
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a form of racism that is embedded as normal practice within society or an organization
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White privilege
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inherent advantages possessed by a white person on the basis of their race in a society characterized by racial inequality and injustice
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