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But Wyatt stopped for a moment and blinked a couple of times thoughtfully. βI donβt normally mention this kind of thing,β he said, βbut that was probably the whitest experience I ever had.β Now, Wyatt is black, and I am white, and his comment really took me by surprise. It took me by surprise in the way white people are constantly being taken by surprise. How could you consider something about my life being anything but totally ordinary and right? After all, I am a white person. Better than that, I am a straight white man, which for a long time in American culture equaled default human.
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Phoebe Robinson (You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain)