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Nevertheless black men cannot be made to see the difference between the lust of black men and the lust of white men, or to acknowledge the justice of such a distinction.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “Nevertheless black men cannot be made to see the difference between the lust of black men and the lust of white men, or…”
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He argues that black men cannot differentiate between the societal perceptions of their desires and those of white men.
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