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Charles Blow is confused about intersectionality because he wants to downplay class

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Carl Beijer
Jun 30, 2016
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Mr. Blow quotes my phrase “interracial liaisons and marriages” as though I use them to mask what in reality was rape. He is wrong…Newt Knight was not Rachel’s slavemaster; they were fighting together against the Confederacy. They lived together until her death in 1889. Not every sexual relationship between a Southern white man and a woman of color was a…

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