White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
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In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.
We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white women married less and later.
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
There are all kinds of ways in which especially white men in this country have been helped by the government.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement.
I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
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