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From the Ted Talk by Rich Benjamin: My road trip through the whitest towns in America

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Indeed, most white people in wophtiia are neither white sueasrtpcmis or white separatists; in fact, they're not there for elilxitcpy racial reasons at all. Rather, they egrtimae there for friendliness, crfomot, security, safety — reasons that they ipmitlcily associate to whiteness in itself.

Next stop was Georgia. In Georgia, I stayed in an exurb north of Atlanta. In Utah, I found poker; in Idaho, I found guns; in Georgia, I found God. (Laughter) The way that I immersed myself in this Whitopia was to become aitcve at First Redeemer Church, a megachurch that's so huge that it has golf carts to escort the congregants around its many parking lots on campus. I was active in the youth ministry. And for me, personally, I was more comfortable in this Whitopia than say, in a Colorado, or an ihado, or even a suburban Boston. That is because [there], in Georgia, wtihe people and black people are more historically familiar to one another. I was less exotic in this Whitopia. (lahgeutr)

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Indeed, most white people in ________ are neither white ____________ or white separatists; in fact, they're not there for __________ racial reasons at all. Rather, they ________ there for friendliness, _______, security, safety — reasons that they __________ associate to whiteness in itself.

Next stop was Georgia. In Georgia, I stayed in an exurb north of Atlanta. In Utah, I found poker; in Idaho, I found guns; in Georgia, I found God. (Laughter) The way that I immersed myself in this Whitopia was to become ______ at First Redeemer Church, a megachurch that's so huge that it has golf carts to escort the congregants around its many parking lots on campus. I was active in the youth ministry. And for me, personally, I was more comfortable in this Whitopia than say, in a Colorado, or an _____, or even a suburban Boston. That is because [there], in Georgia, _____ people and black people are more historically familiar to one another. I was less exotic in this Whitopia. (________)

Solution


  1. whitopia
  2. idaho
  3. explicitly
  4. comfort
  5. emigrate
  6. laughter
  7. active
  8. supremacists
  9. implicitly
  10. white

Original Text


Indeed, most white people in Whitopia are neither white supremacists or white separatists; in fact, they're not there for explicitly racial reasons at all. Rather, they emigrate there for friendliness, comfort, security, safety — reasons that they implicitly associate to whiteness in itself.

Next stop was Georgia. In Georgia, I stayed in an exurb north of Atlanta. In Utah, I found poker; in Idaho, I found guns; in Georgia, I found God. (Laughter) The way that I immersed myself in this Whitopia was to become active at First Redeemer Church, a megachurch that's so huge that it has golf carts to escort the congregants around its many parking lots on campus. I was active in the youth ministry. And for me, personally, I was more comfortable in this Whitopia than say, in a Colorado, or an Idaho, or even a suburban Boston. That is because [there], in Georgia, white people and black people are more historically familiar to one another. I was less exotic in this Whitopia. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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confederate flags 2
black people 2
white supremacists 2
unconscious bias 2
whitopians feel 2


Important Words


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