We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Okay let’s open with two facts about myself. 1) I am a white man, from the middle class, a child of priviledge, and like all priviledged people I hate to admit it. 2) I’m not planning to agonize too hard about how to put things (because I have no readers so wth) so I’m probably gonna say something racist or idiotic or both and I can only hope that the context will show that I’m not that terrible. Okay let’s get started. In my thinking and speaking about race I have always tried to be objective, but I think it is important to also be subjective. I have been wanting to write about my personal experience in this racist world as a white person, but been afraid to because most people that do that are racists. But I think that by examining my own racism and experience I may be able to shed some light on the motivations of racists in general. This idea is supremely important to me because as long as the narrative is woke poor and middle-class people versus racist poor and middle c
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