I've had it very clearly impressed upon me these few years that people who say I'm as American as anyone else are speaking aspirationally
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In terms of real actually existing America it's just a simple fact I'm less American than white Americans and it looks like I always will be
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And one of the great things that article stresses is that the former here is absolutely dependent on owning the latter as past & present ill
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Agreed. Thus the "Obama is a Kenyan" conspiracy theory and other versions of "he isn't one of us" rants.
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