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“The violence that undergirded the country, so flagrantly on display during Black History Month, and the intimate violence of “Yeah, n-, what’s up now?”

“Americans believe in the reality of “race”” “In this way racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, a tornado, or any other phenomenon that can be cast beyond the handiwork of men.”

“the violence rose from fear like smoke from a fire.”

“that this is your country, that this is your world, that this your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”