Very Nice

by Marcy Dermansky

“I am sure she doesn’t think of herself that way. I am sure she gives money to Planned Parenthood and votes Democrat. She doesn’t even know she is racist. She is the kind of woman who says that she likes Indian food but won’t eat cilantro.”

People of color who might as well have been white: Ivy League, good jobs, people who ate arugula.

i chuckled

But I had no interest in the real world. The real world was a miserable place. The real world was a shit show. America was a fucking laughingstock, worse than the third world, fascist, racist, classist.

followers. It was cool to be a person of color. Oppressed. This was not said, but understood. This, at least, I had going for me.