What Richard Stallman thinks about racism

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1. 16 Sept 2026

   Our readingAccusations against a white person are treated as individual, while accusations against a Black person are used by racists to cast blame on Black people generally.

   Their wordsRacism today: when a white person faces accusations of wrongdoing, the accusation is against per alone. When a black person faces accusations, racists use that to cast aspersions against blacks in general.

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