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These words completely characterize the aristocracy of color; for this aristocracy is plainly in the enjoyment of privileges not communicable to other citizens by anything they can themselves do to obtain them.
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Here, Sumner highlights the unjust privileges enjoyed by a racial aristocracy that cannot be earned by merit.
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