Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when … - Percival Everett

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Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there are no mass graves, no one notices. American outrage is always for show. It has a shelf life.

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Percival Everett (born 1956) is an American writer and professor.

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