“I don’t want you to think that my life hasn’t been a happy one. It has been a blessed, privileged existence, and I wake up thankful every day to have been given so much and loved so well. But it is impossible to remove myself entirely from the tides of history. Impossible not to feel, in spite of the cushioning of my own comfortable life, an anxiety over how much further attitudes will slide. I don’t believe slavery will be brought back, but I don’t think it is out of the realm of possibility that a new designation of inferiority might arise for people like me, either in my lifetime or my
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