I Know Why the Mockingbird Sings
Between America’s Blackness and Whiteness
14 min readMay 15, 2019
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Originally published by The Republic on March 1, 2019.
How would one describe America now? How could one? To do so is as much an exercise in contradiction as self-incrimination. From which stories, which facts, which heroes and villains should the collective American story be narrated? Where does truth reside in…