What Goes Through My Mind When White People Call Each Other Racist

Was my neighbor down for the cause — or just smug?

Jeremy Helligar
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6 min readDec 20, 2020

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I’ve never been a particularly good neighbor. Until several days ago, I never had a particularly good example of one.

It’s not that I’ve ever had a significant problem with any of them — except my childhood next-door neighbor in Kissimmee…

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Jeremy Helligar
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