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...might rub it in their face a little bit,” she says...
Bargainers make a deal with white Americans that gives whites the benefit of the doubt: I will not rub America's history of racism in your face, if you will not hold my race against me. Especially in our era of political correctness, whites are inevitably grateful for this bargain that spares them the shame of America's racist past. They respond to bargainers with gratitude, warmth, and even affection. This "gratitude factor" can bring the black bargainer great popularity. Oprah Winfrey is the most visible bargainer in America today...
...cause everything’s gonna be alright / …No one, no one, no one can get in the way of what I’m feeling.” Apparently, nothing and no one can get Alicia Keys down, and her positive attitude will undoubtedly rub off on any one who listens to “As I Am.” At every turn, this album seems to become more and more inspirational. The idea of seizing both life and the moment prevails over and over again. In the songs “Tell You Something?...
...could not look seniors directly in the eye but had to stare down at the third button on his shirt. Seniors cursed him, slapped him and struck him with a metal ruler. They also entered the hostel around midnight one day and forced his friends to strip and rub Vaseline on each others' bodies, he said. "It was all for their sadistic fun." But freshmen were reluctant to retaliate, he said, reasoning they needed to befriend seniors for books and jobs. A faculty member was also unsympathetic, telling Kaliyar his ragging experience was not that...
...later years he refused to let his wife hand down his old clothes to his gardener, lest some of his genius rub...