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I was performing for a roomful of bored white people and I desperately wanted their approval.

I recently rewatched his Moonrise Kingdom, which, as one blogger noted, is as pleasurable and light as a macaron.

Capitalism as retribution for racism. But isn’t that how whiteness recruits us?

Although the Congressman was joking, we probably did know white people better than they knew themselves, and we certainly knew white people better than they ever knew us. This sometimes led to us doubting ourselves, a state of constant self-guessing, of checking our images in the mirror and wondering if that was really who we were, if that was how

White people were looking at themselves and what their history has wrought, like a domestic animal having its face shoved into its own urine.”

In 2011, academics Samuel R. Sommers and Michael I. Norton conducted a survey in which they found that whenever whites reported a decrease in perceived antiblack bias, they reported an increase in antiwhite bias. It was as if they thought racism was a zero-sum game, encapsulated in the paraphrased comment by former attorney general Jeff Sessions: L

Mackey borrows his title from Amiri Baraka, who aptly defines the history of white musicians profiting off of black music as turning “a verb into a noun.”

he was yet another white “authority” who gaslit my reality.

I am convinced that the Dreamers, at least the Dreamers of today, would rather live white than live free.