She’d told me that white supremacy operates under a logic in which everything whiteness does can be rationalized as good, and everything Blackness does can be rationalized as preternaturally evil. These were her words when I came home crying a few days after Columbine, one of my classmates telling me that if he had a kill list, I’d be on it because I was Black. I said he sounded like he was in the Ku Klux Klan, which got me in trouble with our teacher for defaming the other kid’s character.
