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"I've always been a New Yorker, but until I heard about a democratic socialist Palestinian man fighting for universal rights and the dignity of life for working class people, I did not know if my deepest-held political convictions had a place here," he said.

“So, here I am a New Yorker,” he said.

They wanted some other Khalid el-Masri, thought to be an al-Qaeda associate, and not, as Amy Davidson wrote in the New Yorker, that “car salesman from Bavaria.”

In a New Yorker article in 2016, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison wrote of the existential place of race for Whites in America this way:

There’s an entire industry that has attempted to tell her story — true crime books, podcast episodes, snarky YouTube videos, think pieces in The New Yorker, tabloid headlines in the British press, a Netflix documentary and even a Lifetime movie starring Hayden Panettiere — but no one has ever summed up the prolonged fascination with Amanda Knox more neatly or darkly than Knox herself.