Jake, in the late 1970s, I walked on the western slope of Signal Hill CA, under oil donkeys, a 4 year old little Black kid snarled at me, “Honkey”!
In reality, this is the cause of our highly refine hypocrisy about race.
“In particular, we are able to demonstrate that family planning services in the United States were provided more frequently whenever there were black Americans in the population. In other words, there is a strong inferential case to be made that reactions to the racial composition of the population have influenced decisions to provide family planning services. … This fact [, that contraception dispensaries tend to be located in predominantly minority areas, not in poor white ones,] gives apparent substance to charges that such programs are designed not simply to assist the poor, but to control the growth of the black population. “
- Kammeyer, Yetman et al, “Family Planning Services and Distribution of Black Americans,” in Population Studies: Selected Essays and Research (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1975.) p. 475.
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