lightlessbodies’s Reviews > Just Us: An American Conversation > Status Update

This is a bit embarrassing to admit (which is why I'm doing it), but it was at this point I got a little irritated. Why was she thinking so much about her blackness? It's almost obsessed. Like, I'm not obsessed with my asian-ness like that. Which is part of the problem. After all, I didn't grow up in white America. When she was a girl, the world made everything about her blackness. I didn't live that

"What if you're the destruction coursing beneath / your language of savior? Is that, too, not fucked up? / You say, if other whie people had not... or if it seemed like not enough... I would have..."