
Eula Biss — Talking About Whiteness
On Being with Krista Tippett
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You Don't Have to Play by Its Rules, Yes?
Ef fou: My son worried about what it meant to be white, what legacy he had inherited. I didn't tell him that the slaves once accounted for more wealth than all the industry in this country combined. Or that freed slaves became, after the civil war, this country's second mortgage. None the less, my over view of slavery and jim crow left. And i think that that, for me, is an on going parenting challenge. Is an adult living in a dull life? Ta is, where and when do i refuse the s? Right? Where and when do i defy expectations? Am that are written into the social code? For me, it's tricky because rules...
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