Sublime

White men were always extending offers of work to Elwood, recognizing his industrious nature and steady character, or at least recognizing that he carried himself differently than other colored boys his age and taking this for industry.

Nnamdi Azikiwe was a miner in West Virginia, and as an activist in Nigeria, he stood with miners against colonial authorities.

Emma and Wallace had become friends by virtue of the fact that neither of them was a white man in their program.

To be American is to be White. To be White is to not be a Negro.

This wasn’t my idea, by the way. It was George Romney’s. The Republican politician and father of Utah senator Mitt Romney proposed it in 1970 when he was Nixon’s secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Romney wanted the U.S. government to finally stop subsidizing segregation. His idea so enraged white suburbanites that Nixon s