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Non-Black people looking to experience Black culture can do so without the day-to-day struggles that, for Black men and women, cannot simply be washed away with a Neutrogena makeup wipe. Struggles that, unfortunately, are as old and enduring as America itself.

In the political imagination, the Midwest is where doors are never locked, politeness is practically a commandment, and virtue runs as clear as the rivers.

Life and art’s cyclical relation means that what we show and how we show it matters.

While all child-bearing people have faced reproductive oppression, BIPOC have had to fight harder to have children, to raise their children safely, and at the most basic level, to be heard.

Do not simply fall into cancel culture, rather, cancel our culture. Change it and shape it for the better as you are working to move humanity ever forward toward the golden ideals of utopia, but do it with heart and compassion in the eye of justice.

America is an aberration in the history of the world, an unnatural community that dared to defy conventional wisdom and aim for something greater. Those who want to drag the country into a mythical past where America was white and utopian would return the United States to the league of ordinary nations.