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A Supreme Realization 0

At The Seattle Times, Luis Carrasco considers the current who-shot-john about who President Biden will nominate to the Supreme Court. In response, Carrasco takes a deep and thoughtful look at how America, to use his terms, “default(s) to white” in our concept of what constitutes normal.

Here’s one little story about how this manifested itself in his own life; methinks the entire piece is worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.

More recently, I was talking on the phone to a construction worker from Honduras who was struggling during the early days of pandemic lockdowns. We had a great conversation, and he later shared images of him and his family. When I saw the photos, I shook my head at my surprise.

He was Afro-Latino, and I was a fool.

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