In one of my high school classes, one of the students asked in regard to Black slaves (and I’m paraphrasing here), “Isn’t it true that Blacks don’t suffer much anyway in the heat?” The class exploded. Derisive laughter, insults, loudly hurled corrections and one stupified instructor looking down at the floor and shaking his head madly. The class happened to be 100% attended by White students. Better days, back then… at least in B’klyn.
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