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2016, it’s not funny anymore. Donald J. Trump, president elect: I reject. I reject. I reject. Doesn’t matter, they say. This is a red state, they say. We’re outnumbered by the right kind. I’m the white kind, but not the right kind— a woman & for all they know: ev...LiteratureA woman in town tells me
my grandfather was a native; there’s no paperwork to prove it, but old pictures seem to say morethan new words. Told me she lived on the same hillside as him when they were young, that once they wereworking around the same garden— said she never knew he was there, not until she backed into him whileraking the land, looked up to see the sun cowering behind him like a shadow. He frightened her with his footsteps:my grandfather could walk across dry leaves without making any sound; a white man, she said, could not.I saw it in his face, the nativeness that she spoke of: the cut of his jaws, eyes which spoke bluntly withouthis mouth shaping the...
