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Collected Item: “Social Issues”

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Social Issues

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Meme

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Public figure Trevor Noah compares the difference between breaking the law for people who look different by comparing a woman who continued to operate her salon during the shutdown. People praised her for her actions by calling her a "Freedom-loving American". But Trevor Noah is saying that if she had looked different she would have been called a criminal. Currently there is much social focus on the injustices within the legal, criminal and justice systems within America. There is an ongoing debate on what it means to have white-privilege, and what it means to be black in America.

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privilege, race, comparison, American,

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

unknown

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2020-06-01
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