News flash: We are still light years away from the end of racism, never mind the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and all the progress that has been made in the years following. If police brutality (which birthed the Black Lives Matter movement) isn’t occuring  daily, then popular myths like the one in the thread below serve to reinforce divisiveness and hatred against people of colour.

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Do you know how many white people truly and genuinely believe that black people get to go to college for free?

— Ashley C. Ford (@iSmashFizzle) August 2, 2017

I spent the summer between my senior year of high school and freshmen year of college teaching wilderness survival at a boy scout camp.

— Ashley C. Ford (@iSmashFizzle) August 2, 2017

Before that summer I thought racism was something people did, not something they believed. I was naive af. But hey! We all gotta learn.

— Ashley C. Ford (@iSmashFizzle) August 2, 2017

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Obama was first black president of Harvard Law Review. Trump and others still said he only got in because of Affirmative Action.

— Dr. Mansa Keita (@rasmansa) August 2, 2017

I mean that's what hilarious. Legacy admits or people who bought their way in & who are obviously stupid will attack a brilliant black man.

— Serious Black (@NicT10) August 2, 2017

Or that our race grants us acceptance in the first place.

— York Whitaker??‍? (@YorkWhitaker) August 2, 2017

Yep. It's always a brown person who took "their" spot.

— York Whitaker??‍? (@YorkWhitaker) August 2, 2017

What a world.