Asked my wife where her cousin lives she said Maricopa
To which I told her I dont want to visit
To which led to her asking:” Do you have a map of the racist places in the country. How do you know about a small down outside of Phoenix Arizona? Seems random”

To which I replied: “Id say I have a general understanding of the most racist places in a majority of the country. I dont know how I accumulated this knowledge. Arizona was easy because Joe Ariapo has been in the news since college for me. Easiest way to figure it out is to assume everywhere outside of the major cities is racist, because those places were settled and developed by white flight or white exclusivity and then keep an ear out for how they maintain their demographics.“

Is that not a normal way to navigate this country?

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus