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I know that times seem uniquely terrible for white folks, but living down the road from Selma is a constant reminder that this is just America happening to me for the first time, and other people have fought harder against worse with less, so what am I going to do? Give up like a loser?

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Literally said this to a (white) friend in South Carolina as we commiserated and made plans to not give up.

as audre lorde said, "to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson–that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings.... the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak."