A couple who are good friends of mine (who happen to be white) spent the weekend shopping for apartments in Brooklyn and Harlem. While looking at a 1-bedroom in Crown Heights:
"This is the last apartment in the building to turn over. All the 'bad' people are gone, and now the building is full of 'good' people like you."
What does it feel like to be struck by lightning?
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The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in
1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person's sense of chance,
of fa...