what white people mean when they say “America was united after 9/11”
3 min readSep 11, 2023
Every year on September 11, I hear a lot of white Americans talk about how united the US was after September 11, 2001. I hear this on the news, on the radio, from people posting on social media, and in conversations.
This is my rough translation of what many of them actually are saying:
