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“in Chicago was not an easy life for you. But that’s militant, overt racism, maybe because it’s a big city, I don’t know. Here it’s different. It’s generational and it’s not out in public like it used to be. No more colored bathrooms. But private schools that are really nothing more than a way for white people with money to keep their kids away from schools with black kids. Social segregation. It’s part of the fabric of all our lives. White and black.”
― Phillip Thompson, Old Anger

“He expects people to be as forthright as he is,” Rhonda said. “It’s like he has this need for people to be exactly who they say they are. But his life has”
― Phillip Thompson, Old Anger