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What does it mean to "inherit whiteness?"

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Is There a Difference Between Blacks and Whites?

There was some differentiation between the kind of white people who raised you immediately and the kind ofwhite people you are trying to get away from. The difference was class. We were a middle class and so it was, it was a matter of manners. My dad grew up in this town, clarendon county, and so my dad's dad always used this word bar,. He worked with a lot of people of color, delivering furniture a into the black parts ofclarendon County. And so he thought that was the polite way of talking, my grandfather. Then my dad just accepted it. His mamthough, would kind of slap him on the shoulder and say, now

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