It occurs to me that for some, emotional distance is what it takes to equalize race. A white man fights in the army next to black men and so he learns what it is to die for those particular black men. A white man grows old and a young black man comes into his life that could be his son’s age, and he learns what it is to want to fight for him, as well. We all do this, I think. It’s how we learn to work through our various disconnects. Still, without anything chopping at the root of our souls, we’re still imagining the individual only, and not the system that surrounds them, that makes them
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