On the one hand, the White Northerner often seeks to find sympathy and common ground with the White Southerner by disappearing the Black Southerner. On the other, the White Northerner seeks to express solidarity with the Black Southerner by turning the White Southerner into a caricatured demon in comparison to his own virtue. Both are insidious. In the Black Belt, you cannot separate out what happened to the Indigenous and what happened to Black people. To kill and push out, and then to bring down, to wear the earth down. You cannot separate out the hand-to-mouth of the tenant farmer, with
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