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"See, baby, white boys have a primative fixation on black men," he had told Cole, who was busy reading a comic book under the table. "They envy black men and despise them and lust after them all at once. They want to be them, but first they have to destroy them." He had referred to black men as "them." He never brought himself into any of his theories. It was always about somebody else.

They got back into the car then, and my father's face was twisted into some expression I had never seen on a grown man before, like that of a child who has just been abandoned to his first day of school.

"Make them stop, Mum. Make them stop hitting him."
She tilted my head back to look at me, and something in her expression —a slight smile, but dead-serious eyes—made me believe her when she said: "That's what I'm trying to do, baby."