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Debra Grant James, the mother of the twin teenagers, says what’s interesting is to look at the world through their eyes. “To them, capitalism trumps racism,” she says. “They don’t consider that, ‘Because I’m a black male, I’m going to be limited.’ “
But they have learned some lessons, she says, like the time one son had the highest average but was passed over for an academic honor that went instead to a white student. They later learned the parents of the winner had donated money to the school. “Instead of adopting the opinion that because he is black he was discriminated against, he saw it more [about] the money,” their mother says.
Her husband, Dwight James, adds: “But it’s both, because racism is embedded in capitalism.” Controlling resources, James says, is how the notion of race got started in the first place, and is now why it’s still alive today.
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