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| that commitment, I was making that commitment to black people -- and to black people only. But, you know, God will show you things and He'll put things in your path so that -- that you realize that the struggle is really about poor people, you know.Sherrod then tells of having to help a white farmer and being held back by her own sense that he was condescending to her and, more specifically, by the prejudice she carried from growing up in a society thoroughly infused with white supremacy. Again, in the middle of the story, Sherrod disavows her own prejudice:That's when it was revealed to me that, y'all, it's about poor versus those who have, and not so much about white -- it is about white and black,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but it's not.Sherrod then finishes her story with this:Well, working with him made me see that it's really about those who have versus those who don't, you know. And they could be black,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and they could be white; they could be Hispanic. And it made me realize then that I needed to work to help poor people -- those |
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