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Life is complex, conceptually dominated by binaries but never wholly contained by them.
Fascism labors to create the category of the “nobody,” the scapegoat, the sufferer.
Morrison repudiated that category as it has applied to black people over centuries, and in doing so strengthened the category of the “somebody” for all of us, whether black or white or neither. Othering whoever has othered us, in reverse, is no liberation—as cathartic as it may feel.[*13] Liberation is liberation: the recognition of somebody in everybody.[*14]
