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Captain America as a Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs quote. 

I keep thinking, like everyone, that America is in an extra amount of trouble. We feel like we are seeing the rapid destruction of what little good we had going for us.

And I’ve also been reflecting on how it felt growing up in this country, specifically in a part of the country that wasn’t red, or ‘overtly racist’. I wasn’t experiencing the racism of the ‘50′s so without being able to name what I was experiencing it became a personal problem and not a systematic one. I had great disdain for this country’s institutions but I only had those emotions in short bursts because I couldn’t survive burning that hot all the time. I ended up apathetic and disconnected from almost every part of myself.

What I and other BIPOC know is this has been the standard. We have been living this reality for generations. It is just now coming back around to affecting non-BIPOC folks enough for it to feel like the collective end of the world (verse just the end of the world for a few).