My friend who is living in London and completing her PhD at LSE saw these in Walgreens recently. On the one hand, one could say that this was unconscious racism; on the other this was probably an oversight and a thoughtless, inconsiderate act rather than a malicious one. Slavery, racism, apartheid - these are travesties that ravage human history, and recent ones, too. They are also fresh wounds for some people on a daily basis. In the spirit of Black History month, let us work on challenging and vanquishing our prejudices, but also on vanquishing thoughtlessness and inconsideration.
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