What sucks is that I lived most of my life blind to the existence of racism except in certain extreme cases somewhere south of Wisconsin. Come to learn it is common as mud and even I engage in it and participate in systems that perpetuate it. Joe Biden's comment could have come from me and I hate to own that.

Thanks for this piece. It is unsettling how my identity (male, white, cis, het) encourages me to ignore the stories of anyone who is not all of those. I appreciate medium because I can follow writers like you.