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The school climate an individual is brought up in impacts one’s entire life trajectory, feeding into institutional, socio-economic, and representational systems of inequality.

Minorities have, and continue to be, discriminated against. Judicial algorithms can further perpetuate their second-class status by subjecting people of color to longer periods of incarceration.

As bots continue to populate Twitter’s trending page with politically polarized messages, it’s becoming harder than ever to track them down and stop them.

The affair demonstrated the worst symptom of our social media age: that nothing matters anymore.

The call to “love our neighbors as ourselves” is not rooted in sentimentality or mush or comfort. It is deeply rooted in a sense of justice and empathy towards our fellow man. If your love only extends to the blonde-haired and blue-eyed and pale-skinned, then it isn’t loving.

Deploying the National Guard to beat, tear gas, and shoot rubber bullets at journalists, clergy, and peaceful protesters, Trump marched triumphantly to St. John’s Episcopal’s Church across Lafayette Square from the White House and then hoisted a Bible up in the air as though planting a flag. It was a cynical photo op for an unrepentant man.

Interpreting the Constitution to mean that we must excise religion from the body politic like a tumor is simply wishful thinking.