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Surviving as a Nation After Donald J. Trump
How do we move past his aftermath?
“White people, please allow me to introduce you to white people. Not the friendly neighbor who waves from across the street when you pick up the morning paper, nor the caring Mom who drops your teenage daughter off at soccer practice, but the white people you rarely see. When the dream of whiteness in which many Americans have invested is shattered, there is another layer to be found, and it’s a nightmare. This is the whiteness Black Americans know. A whiteness that can’t be negotiated or reasoned with, that refuses to see another’s humanity, that feeds on violence, despises difference of any kind, and blew like a tornado through the corridors of our nation’s Capitol, leaving destruction and murder in its wake on January 6, 2021. A whiteness that can shoot an unarmed Jacob Blake in the back seven times in front of his children or kill Breonna Taylor in her home, walking the streets uncharged, roaming the earth without consequence.” — Max S. Gordon
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