“So many white Americans have wished to live in a world in which African Americans are not angry over past and present injustices, a world in which white people were and are not complicit, in which the injustices themselves — of slavery, Jim Crow, and ongoing structural racism — seem not to exist at all.”
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Historian Micki McElya, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America
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