TROY, NY - JANUARY 16: Surrounded by her family, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announces that she will run for president in 2020 outside the Country View Diner, January 16, 2019 in Troy, New York. Last night on The Late Show, Gillibrand told host Stephen Colbert that she has formed an exploratory committee for her White House run. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Kirsten Gillibrand and the force field of whiteness
We all know how it is. Our history is something we should be ashamed of, our ancestors were criminal oppressors, and our achievements are not our own and were a…