Anand Giridharadas

It actually reminds me, as a storyteller, as an artist, as a journalist, how powerful stories are.

Gosh, do stories matter.

Because you're right.

There is no way such a small number of people could maintain the regime they do.

And you ask yourself, again, go back in history.

How many people did the British have in India?

It was not an enormous number.

Were they outnumbered 100 to 1?

1,000 to 1?

I don't know.

Think about that.

entire old civilization given over.

Right?

Yeah, they had violence.

There weren't that many of them.

The story rules.

And this possibility in American history of people coming together in solidarity over difference, specifically, I would say, white and black people.

Of course, over time, others have entered the picture in a bigger way, particularly since 1965.

But

Anytime in American history you see these moments of crackling possibility of white people on the wrong end of power and black people and other people of color on the wrong end of power finding common cause and coming together.