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256 pages, Hardcover
First published April 9, 2024
some stories were written on us by others. ... That's all her words are: hateful graffiti scribbled across my exterior.
"Slavery is a think...It's a thing you can't know and then unknow. Nothing you do is innocent again. If you're not fighting it, you're accepting it. People think they're innocent because they live in New York or Chicago or don't own a slave. No one is innocent."
What is it that drives such hate into us? Drives us to divide ourselves into light skin and dark skin. North and South, Yank and paddy, woman and man, lady and pseudo-woman? Smaller and smaller divisions from which we debate and decide each other's worth. Is it our natural state? Or are we pressed into such divisiveness by education and culture and self-interest and all the other noise beating down into our hearts all day long?