getting closer…

 

 

“Years ago, a black southerner told me that in the South,

whites do not care how close blacks get

   as long as they do not get too high,

but in the North, she said,

whites do not care how high blacks get

   as long as they do not get too close.”

 

from:

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

by Bettye Kearse

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

p. 72

 

Think about it—how much of this statement do you think is wrong?

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