With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

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