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Alexandra Petri: I have no racist bones, but this exoskeleton has propped me up for decades

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I have no bones at all! I am a soft grub. I am a tender worm. If it were not for the enormous, thick exoskeleton of racism that has been constructed around me over the course of centuries, people would not keep accusing me personally of having this racist bone.

I am very sorry that they keep feeling the need to do so. I have grown as best I could within this carapace, and I, personally, carry no ill will toward anyone. I don’t see color!

(Actually, my perception is on a radiation spectrum that is somewhere beyond the colors glimpsed with the human eye.