BLACK AND WHITE
There seems to be a radical double standard with respect to racial and sexist slurs. Monroe, writing on interracial couples, attributes to black women the put-down “The first thing a black man does when he gets a little success is to buy a Cadillac. The second thing he does is get a white woman to put in it.”
Dynamite! What would happen to a white man rash enough to say that in the Coliseum at a Raiders game? What would the NAACP do if Jesse Helms made such a remark? Or even worse, Dan Quayle?
EDWARD G. LOWELL
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