Colson Whitehead

And so that's where we find Elwood in his later chapters is a man trying to find himself after this very formative few months.

And so that's where we find Elwood in his later chapters is a man trying to find himself after this very formative few months.

I find I feel better if I don't think about it. I don't know. You know, this book comes out of, you know, feeling very desperate, feeling that, you know, in the last 60 years, we have made some toddler steps towards equality. And then, you know, we fall back. And that's been my sort of experience my whole life. We sort of make an advance and then we go back to spaces. And

I find I feel better if I don't think about it. I don't know. You know, this book comes out of, you know, feeling very desperate, feeling that, you know, in the last 60 years, we have made some toddler steps towards equality. And then, you know, we fall back. And that's been my sort of experience my whole life. We sort of make an advance and then we go back to spaces. And

I find I feel better if I don't think about it. I don't know. You know, this book comes out of, you know, feeling very desperate, feeling that, you know, in the last 60 years, we have made some toddler steps towards equality. And then, you know, we fall back. And that's been my sort of experience my whole life. We sort of make an advance and then we go back to spaces. And

You know, my parents were basically Elwood's generation. And I can't imagine my grandparents or my parents raising their kids in a racist country and then seeing what has happened in the last 50 years. We had a black president. That's crazy. And then I think they'd be not surprised about swastikas being painted on synagogues and incarceration camps full of brown people at the border. So...

You know, my parents were basically Elwood's generation. And I can't imagine my grandparents or my parents raising their kids in a racist country and then seeing what has happened in the last 50 years. We had a black president. That's crazy. And then I think they'd be not surprised about swastikas being painted on synagogues and incarceration camps full of brown people at the border. So...

You know, my parents were basically Elwood's generation. And I can't imagine my grandparents or my parents raising their kids in a racist country and then seeing what has happened in the last 50 years. We had a black president. That's crazy. And then I think they'd be not surprised about swastikas being painted on synagogues and incarceration camps full of brown people at the border. So...

I guess my new line on hope is that I don't see a lot changing in my lifetime, I think. Hopefully my kids, you know, 50 years from now will have a different idea, the same way that I have a different idea than my parents and grandparents. But right now I think we're pretty stuck, and I don't see things getting a lot better before they get worse.

I guess my new line on hope is that I don't see a lot changing in my lifetime, I think. Hopefully my kids, you know, 50 years from now will have a different idea, the same way that I have a different idea than my parents and grandparents. But right now I think we're pretty stuck, and I don't see things getting a lot better before they get worse.

I guess my new line on hope is that I don't see a lot changing in my lifetime, I think. Hopefully my kids, you know, 50 years from now will have a different idea, the same way that I have a different idea than my parents and grandparents. But right now I think we're pretty stuck, and I don't see things getting a lot better before they get worse.

Five and 14.

Five and 14.

Five and 14.

And she's like super woke. You know, she's like policing me on my super PC-ness, which is sort of startling. And then the younger one, you know, I have to start training early. You know, he's into cops and robbers. And so he raised an eyebrow and he'll say, you know, a police car will speed by and he'll say, there's a cop going to stop a robber. And I'll have to step in and say, or...

And she's like super woke. You know, she's like policing me on my super PC-ness, which is sort of startling. And then the younger one, you know, I have to start training early. You know, he's into cops and robbers. And so he raised an eyebrow and he'll say, you know, a police car will speed by and he'll say, there's a cop going to stop a robber. And I'll have to step in and say, or...

And she's like super woke. You know, she's like policing me on my super PC-ness, which is sort of startling. And then the younger one, you know, I have to start training early. You know, he's into cops and robbers. And so he raised an eyebrow and he'll say, you know, a police car will speed by and he'll say, there's a cop going to stop a robber. And I'll have to step in and say, or...

An innocent person driving a car that the cop thinks is too fancy for him in the wrong neighborhood. That's the sort of early tutelage you get in the Whitehead household.

An innocent person driving a car that the cop thinks is too fancy for him in the wrong neighborhood. That's the sort of early tutelage you get in the Whitehead household.

An innocent person driving a car that the cop thinks is too fancy for him in the wrong neighborhood. That's the sort of early tutelage you get in the Whitehead household.