Still, it is the question that waits after this conclusion that is more pertinent. When you are invited to play an unwinnable game, a thought will inevitably pop into your head: even if this game could be won, would it be a game worth winning? In recent years, Americans and other people in the West have fallen over themselves to prove that they are not what their critics say that they are. They try to prove that they are not racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and more, and hope that it is understood that while their history may have included racism, racism was not by any means the sole point of
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