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“You know what’s funny?” Clara squinted at him, her eyes now slightly red. “White men want white women. Negro men want white women. Black women are left out here to navigate on our own. In the slight chance that a white man does look my way, it’s with lust. Or it’s to get me a-scrubbing and a-cooking,” she said flatly.