A Good Neighborhood

by Therese Anne Fowler

We need to keep at least seven trees for every human on the planet, or else people are going to start suffocating.

some men—well-off white men in particular—were so accustomed to their authority and privilege that they perceived it as a right.

“Why doesn’t half white equal white the way half Black equals Black?” Her answer, i.e., the history of the one-drop rule, etc., made sense but didn’t satisfy him.

Some people were born into privilege and had everything handed to them; some were born white trash and had to hustle to get even a thousandth of what the privileged had.