This is America II

Shannon Barber
Sep 7, 2018 · 6 min read

I live with hate.

I live in an urban apartment building, full of people of varying sorts including, at least one Nazi who feels comfortable enough to scratch crooked swastikas onto things. Another White supremacist who “engaged” me by talking at me about how concerned with Black on Black crime he is, how he “just wishes” the Blacks would stop using social services. He did not see the irony in me pointing out that he himself uses the same services. Another neighbor, an older White man gleefully cornered me to tell me about how he voted Trump so keep “she who shall not be named” out of office and…

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