White flight had moved much of Little Rock’s young, mostly white managerial class into this area. Beneath all that lay a still deeper history, when this area had served as the city's western frontier in the late ’60s and early ’70s. The mall had died since I’d moved away, then been bulldozed, then been replaced by another (outdoor) shopping center. We were sitting in her car in December, parked in a lot that had once belonged to Little Rock's University Mall. This past year, we’d settled into an uneasy truce. Which means I, from an early age, began arming myself with language and that I, from an early age, began crafting ways to double down on my right to desire white men. She’s the type to say things like this to my face. My older sister has been calling me an Uncle Tom my entire life.
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