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On this administration's end game and the future of America:
"As to their end game, I wish it was as easy as saying that I think it's about creating a structure that economically benefits them. If that were just the case, then we would be back in the Bush administration. The problem, I think, with this administration is that what we have heard and seen, it's not about economics--it's about the primacy of whiteness, and not just whiteness. It's so close, so close to what we say in Nazi Germany in many ways. Well, when you have an attack on the queer community, the kinds of things that we've heard from Pence. The man is not Vice President for a minute, and he's concerned with bathrooms. When you hear the kind of racist rhetoric that catapulted Trump into power, and you know that those rallies are continuing. Then it's not just about getting elected. It's about something else. And that is what should terrify us. It should terrify us....

"So I think we need to be frightened. We need to be frightened by this administration, we need to understand that they mean what they say. We need to understand that dropping 'white' from 'white nationalist' doesn't make you not a white nationalist. We can't be like oh, oh, okay."
-- Claudia Rankine. "I Think We Need To Be Frightened" Highlights From Her Talk At Bam's Eat, Drink, And Be Literary By Emily Temple, Literary Hub (May 11, 2017).
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