In the essay, published posthumously, Yush had disavowed Buaji, criticized you, and empathized with Papa’s pain. Yush wrote that he used to feel bad for you when you cried, but now he saw the toll that your marriage had taken on his father as the sole provider and a short brown man rejected and emasculated by white America. He lamented a society that valued the emotional pain of women over the burden men had to provide for them. He complained that women were inferior in logical ability and that women in abusive relationships were not held accountable for their decision to stay, while the
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