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...Well, I'm just tellin' ya, because you might not know better...
Archie: Edith, you gotta stop readin' what them two bleeding hearts bring home! I'm tellin' ya-you wanna get into sports or entertainment, it's easier bein' black. That...
...paper. The views are often contradictory and thus all the more real. "We all had an understanding that it wasn't our fault. Nobody made us feel ashamed," recalls one poor white Southern girl. In another passage, a Chicago door-to-door salesman remembers it differently: "Shame? You tellin' me? I would go stand on that relief line, I would bend my head low so nobody would recognize me. The only scar it left on me is my pride, my pride...
...heroic World War II exploits against the Japanese, the one-eyed, one-handed New Guinea native was flown to Canberra to meet Queen Elizabeth during her recent Australian tour. Ex-Sergeant-Major Yau Wiga did not hesitate to offer political advice-in his best pidgin English. "Me tellin Missis Queen: 'Now queen, I'm one fella pickaninny. Self-guvim New Guinea im e no good. You givim self-guvim New Guinea now, New Guinea e all buggerup.' " The Queen's reply, reports Wiga, sounded something like...
...jobs, and use these as sociological proof of the cherished racist theories. "Them niggers will never be any good," they cheerily tell squirming visitors. "They's just so dumb that all they like to do is sit around an shoot pool. Damn federal government comes down here tellin' us the niggers are as good as us. All they gotta do is look at 'em to see they're no good...