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“because they saw whiteness for what it was. It is something that can be given or denied, something that must be earned and maintained. Something delicate and ephemeral, something ravenous for constant upkeep, something that can be lost in an instant if it isn’t preserved. Like milk, something that curdles as soon as anything else infiltrates it. Something that goes bad in the sun.”