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\"...I actually wasn’t being respectful...\" Pugh noted. \"I wore this culture on my terms only, to parties, at dinner...\"

She said she is taking responsibility for her past actions to \"be part of the change.\"

\"I cannot dismiss the actions I bought into years ago, but I believe that we who were blind to such things must acknowledge them and recognize them as our faults, our ignorance and our white privilege and I apologize profusely that it took this long,\" she wrote.

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