... important that individuals work to transform their consciousness, striving to be antiracist, it is important for us to remember that the struggle to end white supremacy is a struggle to change a system, a structure For our efforts to be truly effective, individual struggle to change consciousness must be fundamentally linked to collective effort to transform those structures that reinforce and perpetuate white supremacy ... . (Hooks, 1995). Basically, Hooks is saying people must work from within the system to change the rudiments of the hierarchical white supremacist structure within the...

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... did not the liberty of being a citizen, resulted in Congress possessing no authority to prohibit slavery on federal territories. Lincoln would speak of a southern conspiracy that wanted to expand the system of slavery and endanger the thoughts of the Founding Fathers. After that, Lincoln and Stephen Douglas would engage in seven debates which focused on the central question of further expansion ... ...

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