Word: tarbrushes
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...comes the manufacture of its opposite myth. European man, once the hero of the conquest of the Americas, now becomes its demon; and the victims, who cannot be brought back to life, are sanctified. On either side of the divide between Euro and native, historians stand ready with tarbrush and gold leaf, and instead of the wicked old stereotypes, we have a whole outfit of equally misleading new ones. Our predecessors made a hero of Christopher Columbus. To Europeans and white Americans in 1892, he was Manifest Destiny in tights, whereas a current PC book like Kirkpatrick Sale...
...Envious of quick-tanning athletic types, milk-faced Cogg-Willoughby fought back at weekend parties by muttering about how easy it is for Mediterranean types to acquire a tan, managing to imply that the bronzed fellows probably had a touch of the tarbrush in their ancestry...
...this way, reports Potter, Cogg-Willoughby was able to suggest that De Sint probably had a "touch of the tarbrush in his ancestry." De Sint spent the rest of the weekend fully clothed...
...setting the stage for it. Neil is shown to have a lovely white wife, a little daughter "with [a] skin of strawberries and cream," a high-class home in a "restricted" residential district. Posed before Neil Kingsblood is the agonizing moral question: must I admit "my touch of the tarbrush" when I know what misery this admission will create for my wife and child...
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