I always thought I lived in a world where everyone was equal. I learned about racism and sexism early in my life, but it all seemed like stories and fables, ending happily. The north won the war, slavery ended, and women received the right to vote. Good always succeeded over evil. I lived in a bubble of liberal upper class optimism. I grew up in a community in which, to the best of my knowledge, …
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