Status Updates From White Flights: Race, Fictio...

“But young love is still love. It isn’t that emotions get less intense over time; young adults just aren’t as adept at concealing them. I had no scar tissue.” Okay damn

“The depressive and reparative work the white subject can undertake in response to racism is such a poorly understood, understudied subject that I can’t say anything definite about it at all; like reparative writing, it’s a question that remains outside, to be answered not by me.”

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whiteness seeing its end (preppers); allowing endings to become beginnings for repairing the race problem; guns as ritual objects collecting dust (until threats of minority race war come about); avoidance as absolution; i tried to be nonracist, but the world was not kind enough; there is no reward to making things better, it is only what it is

cynicism (depression, but productivity, the color exits from life); the wes anderson sanitization of melancholy (white male experience); emo as the white blues - a melody for the misery; juxtaposition of the "loud" racial minority to the overly repressed white; racism's damage to white people, for self restraint is a virtue; offense with a use; work is between life and death; minority inspo fetish

race-passing; interracial people not existing as statements; minimizing things to make categories; moving beyond, moving past race; meaning inherent to humanity, to personhood; meta struggle for freedom; black and white americans are more alike than anyone else in the word; black and white as literal exaggerated color differences between us

passivicity of white mannerisms; filling space as resistance - emptiness as a virtue; the mental space race takes; suffering as culture/americana for black people; white only spaces being devoid of love; microaggressions - "artificial dyes had darkened them on the inside;" blank canvases for projection; society that works - how it was sacrificed to the visibility of black residents; encountering diversity in the city