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Loitering around tippling-shops, one of the offenses enumerated, was in far larger proportions the habit of white men, but they were left untouched and the negro alone was arrested and punished.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “Loitering around tippling-shops, one of the offenses enumerated, was in far larger proportions the habit of white men…”
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Blaine highlights the hypocrisy in law enforcement, where white men were often exempt from punishment for similar offenses.
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