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You'll a BISS authored an important essay in 2015 called White Debt.

She reflected on whiteness in America through the metaphor of buying a house.

Have surprisingly comfortable debt can be in the right circumstances, and how easily

we forget that we don't actually own what we feel we possess.

She helpfully opens up words and ideas like complacence, guilt, and something related

to privilege called opportunity hoarding.

This show has been turned to by many in this moment, and so we are offering it up anew.

It is the only honor conversation I've ever had, in which my guest and I had to stop

midway and acknowledge how embarrassing it is that we have to have this conversation at

all and how inadequate all of our words.

Yet how urgent that we reach for them nevertheless.

Rereading the essay that introduced me to her, I'm struck by sentences that have now

revealed their deepest, hardest truths in my community in Minneapolis and across our

nation.

She wrote,

Whiteness is costing me my community.

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