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• These cultural signals kept me thinking he probably empathized more than he did. I was still too young, too gullible myself to have gleaned that whites who loved black culture didn’t necessarily understand black people.
• His parents, generous and hospitable upon every visit I’ve ever made to their home, were the type of white liberals who might bemoan the presence of young, unrefined-looking black boys walking through their tony part of Cincinnati’s east side.
• taking shelter from the state-sponsored danger that awaits the black drug user in the streets of the city’s west and central districts.
• A resurgent and increasingly belligerent NRA of the late 1970s, once an organization that had spearheaded sensible gun-control efforts, was inspired in its lobbying to combat new gun-control laws by the Panthers’ argument for firearms as a means of personal, and public, self-defense in an era of increasing crime and untrustworthy law enforcement. I...
• presidential candidate for the first time in the organization’s hundred years of existence.