realized how vulnerable she was and how shitty the world was, and I had to do something to make it better,” Rae explained. For so long, she’d thought that supporting hate was that “something,” because it meant speaking truth about how minorities were standing in white people’s way, making life hard in America. But now, at home caring for her daughter, worrying about money and the future, Rae began to wonder: Did her community of hate misidentify what was problematic in her life? Maybe it wasn’t people with black or brown skin or Jews with their purported monopoly on successful careers. Maybe
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