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" My presence is often unexpected and considered offensive, or, I can be ignored entirely."

That makes me sad, and probably makes your husband sad, too. I think you're brilliant.

I've written fairly extensively on the tapes white folks grow up with — not in defense of the behavior but in regard to how we whites have an absolute obligation to treat it for the toxic mental illness that it is derived from.

I won't ever stop writing and talking about it. It's just sad that here we are in the 21st century and it's still necessary.

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Charles Bastille
Charles Bastille

Written by Charles Bastille

Author of MagicLand & Psalm of Vampires. Join me on my Substack at https://www.ruminato.com/. All stories © 2020-24 by Charles Bastille

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