if you come from a mostly white passing family like i do, these terms become both ludicrous and enlightening:
my white passing mother and siblings are treated as non-hyphenated americans and that has enabled them to join the maga fold and obtain a higher socioeconomic status.
my father, my other siblings and i are not white passing and the way americans treat us has kept us outside of the maga fold and keeps us on par socioeconomically with the rest of our extended family who are also not white passing.
we literally came from the same exact background, but our worlds are far apart from each other and it’s gotten to such a bizarre extent the white passing family members no longer feel comfortable spending time the rest of the extended family because of trump and their socioeconomic statuses. the children of the white-passing family members have never met their cousins and are incapable of doing so for most of them since they do not know how to speak the language that they descend from.
if you come from a mostly white passing family like i do, these terms become both ludicrous and enlightening:
my white passing mother and siblings are treated as non-hyphenated americans and that has enabled them to join the maga fold and obtain a higher socioeconomic status.
my father, my other siblings and i are not white passing and the way americans treat us has kept us outside of the maga fold and keeps us on par socioeconomically with the rest of our extended family who are also not white passing.
we literally came from the same exact background, but our worlds are far apart from each other and it’s gotten to such a bizarre extent the white passing family members no longer feel comfortable spending time the rest of the extended family because of trump and their socioeconomic statuses. the children of the white-passing family members have never met their cousins and are incapable of doing so for most of them since they do not know how to speak the language that they descend from.