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Reflecting On Joey Votto’s Awakening

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Last Sunday, Joey Votto entered the conversation of injustice against African Americans with an opinion piece in the Cincinnati Enquirer. He reflects on himself as someone who has been surrounded by people of a different race for most of his life, yet is just now beginning to see and hear the pain that is plaguing people of color in our society. The idea that someone like Votto has gone his entire life not fully understanding the effects of his own white privilege reinforces that so many of us, myself included, have been ignorant to this idea as well.