Patty’s white tears for Donald Trump made me realize that there are generations of white people who have been socialized to believe that what we now call “racism” is just “the way it is”—the way it should be. Of course law enforcement should be supported, even as officers murder unarmed black people for simply existing. Of course brown immigrants should be kept out—they don’t belong here. “This land is my land,” the white fable goes, and it was never meant to apply to people from Mexico and Central America, even though they, and those indigenous to what we now call the United States, are quite
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