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They leave Bruce in Philadelphia.
It's necessary. At least that's what Johnny tells himself, when he walks away from the one man who'd never let him down since he returned to the land of the upright. And Bruce is needed in Boston, sorely needed, at a time when everyone with medical training is precious to the survivors.
But it isn't that, because there are survivors everywhere. In reality, they leave Bruce because even in the midst of everything else, white men traveling with a black man stand out. They catch in the mind, in the memory. And they can very ill afford to be remembered. It doesn't matter that Bruce would have shaved his dreadlocks. His skin, in this America as always, is the most important thing about him to too many people who see him.
- from 'Afraid of Americans' by RivkaT
So I was reading this fic yesterday and I had a question for the Americans on my flist, but then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mynxii rang and suddenly I had to contact people urgently quickly about lifts and I didn't have phone numbers and my computer randomly switched itself off (it does that if I like, nudge it, or look at it wrong) and then I had to go out.
I'd completely forgotton about it, but it's back, so I thought I'd ask, is it really that segregated? *points to fic*
It's necessary. At least that's what Johnny tells himself, when he walks away from the one man who'd never let him down since he returned to the land of the upright. And Bruce is needed in Boston, sorely needed, at a time when everyone with medical training is precious to the survivors.
But it isn't that, because there are survivors everywhere. In reality, they leave Bruce because even in the midst of everything else, white men traveling with a black man stand out. They catch in the mind, in the memory. And they can very ill afford to be remembered. It doesn't matter that Bruce would have shaved his dreadlocks. His skin, in this America as always, is the most important thing about him to too many people who see him.
- from 'Afraid of Americans' by RivkaT
So I was reading this fic yesterday and I had a question for the Americans on my flist, but then
mynxii rang and suddenly I had to contact people I'd completely forgotton about it, but it's back, so I thought I'd ask, is it really that segregated? *points to fic*
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I was talking to another American friend on the phone once and I she also said people just don't talk about it. At all.
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Maybe we can chat later?
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