It's also...confusing because whiteness and Blackness are peculiarly constructed in North America. Hispanic and Latine are not races in the United States. I've seen white Latines say they're not white, but most native Latines I know think that's ridiculous and erases very real racial divisions across the Americas.

It's interesting how much more ostentatious it is than his Chicago home, which was a regular single family in the style of a two-flat (two condos--still probably 3500 square feet).

Nor have I. I live in IL now, and this is what we’ve been working toward. If Baltimore is intent on going in the opposite direction while political leaders to nothing to save residents, so be it.

Like the giant active oil field in the middle of Los Angeles that once made a high school explode.

There’s an organization near there called Project Plase. I don’t know whether they cater to a specific group, but they might be able to help or bring you somewhere else with clothes and supplies. My friend used to work there.