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Crease
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White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed just as often. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected.
— Sep 28, 2015 12:22PM
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Crease
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The world had to upend itself before shades of possibility between decorum and disgrace could emerge. Suddenly people like us were denouncing war and imperialism, discarding the strategic protocol of civil rights for the combat aggression of Black Power. We unmade out straightened hair, remade our pristine diction, renounced our social niceties and snobberies...The entitlements of Negroland were no longer relevant.
— Sep 29, 2015 06:47PM
Crease
is on page 109 of 248
I don't remember ever saying "Negro" or "White"; I remember carefully saying "my out-of-school friends" and "my school friends" - but since some of my out-of-school friends were in school with me, this nomenclature did not serve my strategic evasions.
I was clearly maneuvering to control my racial airspace.
— Sep 28, 2015 06:37PM
I was clearly maneuvering to control my racial airspace.
