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“ It's the expectation that many white men have that they shouldn't have to climb, shouldn't have to struggle, as others do. It's the idea not only that they think they have less than others, but that they were supposed to have so much more.”

“When I think about the trajectory our social progress is supposed to take the way we've been taught in school that it should work—and I look at how little it tracks with how we treat women of color who dare challenge the political status quo, I am dis-mayed.”

“White supremacy is, and has always been, a pyramid scheme.”

“And when he emerges from his mom’s basement after a day of playing video games—on a system that wouldn’t exist without Asian people—to make himself a peanut butter sandwich, the fact that the spread wouldn’t exist without a Black man sticks in his throat a little.”