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These events are swirling around them. in the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. in the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. i went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and i left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that i didn't know about.

-Sara Paretsky

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Sara Paretsky

These events are swirling around them. in the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. in the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. i went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and i left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that i didn't know about.

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White people scare the crap out of me. i have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and i've never heard a black person say, 'we're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'

I felt like it was a courageous show [black-ish] from the beginning. we are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. but the show is not even about us being black. the show is about us being a family. that is groundbreaking - on tv, the black characters either happen to be black or they're the "black character," where everything they say is about being black. i think that's the genius.

I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. the white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. the white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. the white man's interest is to make money, to exploit.

One of the things i remember as a child: there was a man named joe pulliam. he was a great christian man; but one time, he was living with a white family and this white family robbed him of what he earned. they didn't pay him anything. this white man gave him $150 to go to the hill, (you see, i lived in the black belt of mississippi)... to get another negro family. joe pulliam knew what this white man had been doing to him so he kept the $150 and didn't go.

The strange thing about my life is that i came to america at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. this was a big help to me. also, the people who were most cruel to me when i first came to america were black americans. they made absolute fun of the way i talked, the way i dressed. i couldn't dance. the people who were most kind and loving to me were white people. so what can one make of that? perhaps it was a coincidence that all the people who found me strange were black and all the people who didn't were white.

The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of europe on his all fours. before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "good ship jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.

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