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The Million Man March: Powerful images of Black men and brotherhood twenty-five years ago

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  1. knocklessmonster
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    Honestly, the specifics don't even matter when you've gotten the population of many American cities to show up to an event like that. I didn't even know this happened. Granted, I was 5 at the...

    The NPS counted 400,000, but boston counted 875,000

    Honestly, the specifics don't even matter when you've gotten the population of many American cities to show up to an event like that.

    I didn't even know this happened. Granted, I was 5 at the time, but you'd think it would've come up in a history book or something.

    And concerning the criticism mentioned about it just being men, particularly with oppressed groups*, with as many common problems as there, there also exist further complications when other issues are considered (poverty, sexual orientation, gender, etc), they seem to amplify if you belong to a group considered as second class, it becomes oppression to the nth degree, in a way.

    * Is there a better way to say this? It feels wrong.

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