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Article: When do people not protest unfairness? The case of skin color discrimination.
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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It was a color thing and a class thing. And for generations of black people, color and class have been inexorably tied together.
--Lawrence Graham (2000)
Well-to-do, fair-skinned kids in the neighborhood weren't allowed to play with him and they regularly taunted him about his color, Jones says.... "That's been a dominant force in my life," he says. "Having lived through those experiences gave me the desire to fight for the disadvantaged."
--Robinson-English (2005)
That's bullshit research.
--Comment at a conference to coauthor of paper on skin color and political attitudes, 2004
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