Every non-white and/or queer person in America has been in Leota Adebayo’s shoes at various times, walking down a street in an unfamiliar place, minding their business and expecting nothing more than to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air.

If, by chance, they encounter one of the locals, as Adebayo (played by Danielle Brooks) does at the end of the most recent “Peacemaker” episode, they might wave and smile, partly to reassure the stranger that they mean no harm.

Seven out of ten times, that person returns that smile or does nothing. In a hypothetical eighth instance, they may do what the woman driving by Adebayo does in the episode, which is portentously titled “Ignorance Is Chris”: the passerby might respond with a look of shock or possibly outright malice.

The ninth theoretic instance i

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