Just Us: An American Conversation

by Claudia Rankine

We’re not helpless but we are “conditioned to be indifferent,” to use Bryan Stevenson’s phrase. All these years of white neighbors suspecting, accusing, or killing black people occur inside the law more often than not. Lynching postcards were delivered through the US mail.

Teju Cole writes, “There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge.” How is it these