TURN YOUR WATCH, TURN YOUR WATCH BACK\/ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS<\/strong>: I only remember two songs from my childhood, listening to \u201cQ-107, Washington\u2019s Top 40!\u201d I remember \u201cKarma Chameleon,\u201d which for some reason I associate with the yellow schoolbus taking me to Jewish day camp.<\/p>\n And I remember \u201cBillie Jean,\u201d on the playgrounds of Shepherd Elementary\u2013a school named after a segregationist, where I doubt I knew fifteen other white kids, but the white kids I did <\/em>know were almost all in the gifted-and-talented program, because that\u2019s the way racism works. That\u2019s why, as Ta-Nehisi Coates has said so often, you can\u2019t fix police brutality by painting the Policeman Barbies black. \u201cMeritocracy\u201d in a post-colonialist world is the worst caricature of Calvinism, where you\u2019re pre-damned and you\u2019re supposed to like it.<\/p>\n \u2026Anyway<\/em>. \u201cABC, easy as 1-2-3\u201d was part of the old hand-clapping rhyme I learned, which sometimes ended, \u201cWe got the power!\u201d with the Black Power fist. Nobody ever thought it was weird that a white girl did that ending. Nobody ever thought it was weird that black kids and white kids would pull their eyes up for the \u201cChinese, Japanese, Indian Chief!\u201d rhyme.<\/p>\n