“White” Paint Swatches

• Territorial amnesia
• Euroamerican whitewash
• Huck Finn never asked me but this is the color I would paint the fence if she had
• Alibi crème
• He’s not a racist (but his great-grandparents painted their swastikas this color)
• The color of the bones in the mass graves after the pogroms, deep down under that hill on which the willows are just starting to green up in springtime
• The color of the whites of our eyes regardless of different eye and skin colors and race as a social construction
• My ancestors gave up being Irish in order to be this color of white when they were struggling as immigrants after being deposed and starved and exported by the British
• A snappy, brisk “don’t blame me”
• The color of hair on the people, head bowed, who take responsibility and make amends
• The color of the flag after the multidimensional warfare and domination on people, place, and planet exhausts dominator culture’s capacity to eat, breathe, and breed
• Color of bronchioles when a young person is born and thrives in a world without petrochemical burning in a post-carbon future