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Patricia calls on Phillip to ask the first question. Phillip speaks at length of how he did not really think of himself as black when he was growing up – that he went to a white school, and that there were racialized locker-room comments including the word “nigger” (110) and comments about the size of his “dick” (110) from people who had previously spoken about forgetting that he was black. He also describes thinking of himself as “just Phillip … this / superhuman dude / who’s beyond, / like, / black and white” (110). He goes on to say that he has no memories of being traumatized because of his race – at least not “to the same scale as some of the other people” in the room (111). Teá says that “as a fair-skinned black woman...