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Ken is a white retiree who claims to support Black Lives Matter but oppose football player Colin Kaepernick’s silent protest against police violence. In fact, Ken compares Kaepernick’s protest to violence against white people, and McGhee argues that this is typical of how white people distort reality to avoid taking responsibility for racial violence.
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Chapter 9: The Hidden Wound
In 2018, a retired white man named Ken told McGhee that, even though he supported Black Lives Matter, he couldn’t stand seeing Colin...
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