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# WhitePrivilege  #IbramXKendi  #ElijahCummings  #AfricanAmerican #Blackmen  #Racism  By Ibram X. Kendi   Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University   theatlantic.com Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young. I had a 30-minute ride to the train station. I nestled into my seat, opened my phone, and saw that Representative Elijah Cummings had passed away. I gasped and covered my mouth. The driver peeked at me in his rear-view m irror. He saw me shaking my head and whispering what many Americans whispered last Thursday:  He was only 68 . My mind turned to my father, whom I had just left at a hotel in Princeton, New Jersey. Dread burned in my chest. To get my mind off my father’s mortality, I started reading obituaries for Cummings, who will lie in state today at the U.S. Capitol. The more I learned about the gentleman who would not yield, the more my chest burned for his family, for my family—for a