we always were

Memorial to George Floyd in Berlin, Germany

Every day I wake up, the first thought in my head is, How did we get here? How did white people become so unashamedly racist? And I have to conclude: We were always this racist. Same as our government. Trump is nothing new. The bureaucracy was always this corrupt. The racism, as the saying goes, is baked in. The system isn’t broken; it was designed to work this way.

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