In the third round of storytelling, we no longer believe the conscious tale or the unconscious one. Now we believe they are somehow us, perhaps an us visiting from the future. All three stories are still expressions of “our racist colonial conquests” for Vaeni. Hence the term “alien,” which is what “we also use to describe brown people who want to move to America from other countries we hate because FOX News told us to because they’re selling our racism to us.”82 The “Gray” (a displaced mixture of “black” and “white”) for Vaeni is another obvious racist trope.
