What do we owe the machine of living, which gushes its venom at the innocent? By innocent, I don’t mean those unscathed by politics, which is an impossible position to occupy. Purity is a misleading thing. With this troubled word—“innocence”—I want to nod to those in a brawl with the world as a consequence of what they signify in the arena of national sentiment. How any of us survive a world always against us, against what we signify and make imaginable, is a sociologically significant act. What I know is that it’s unfair that NDNs are called on to make do in a world we neither wanted nor
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