Is That Always the Answer? It's a Complicated Story.

Wite: I wanted to identify and be accepted by the brothers. Why is that always the answer? And frankly, t always is. This is what i'm trying to argue in the essay, against racial identity as a totem, against it as as a thing. That you, you are more than this. We're more than this," says Wite. "I betrayed my friend" he writes of an incident where he didn't vouch for another white person at a meeting about how to respond to fred hampton's murder. The first thing ira glass does when she meets wite is ask him if he knows who Hewheton newton is. He doesn't know