The privilege of my whiteness
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My nephew just got married in Boston. The celebration was beautiful, and I especially liked hearing all his relatives, old and new, saying how much they appreciated our coming from “so fah away.” You can hear a Bostonian a mile away.I am a New Yorker. Everywhere I have lived in the United States, people nod their heads when I say I’m from New York. I don’t say “New Yawk” or talk like Jerry Seinfeld and his friends, but I guess regional identities go much deeper than that.I’m Jewish. That puts me in a distinct minority nearly everywhere I go, except in synagogue and at some of my friends’ Continue reading >>>