In this essay, Tressie details a story of attending an Obama party in North Carolina in a neighborhood where, at the time, she found it hard to believe was the choice spot . At the time of the  party, Obama hadn’t been elected yet, but the party was filled with white people that were sure that he would be. They had chosen him. In reflecting post elections and terms of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, Tressie outlines the poles at which the paradox of American created whiteness and Blackness exists. She urges, almost as a cautionary warning to “know your whites.”

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