According to a rumor in New Orleans, an old family restaurant used to give a free ham to any police officer who killed a black person in the line of duty. The restaurant stopped doing this only in the 1980s, the story goes, when a black police officer came in to claim his ham. The lesson: In white American, a black man in uniform is still just a black man. [Today, many believe that once a black person becomes a cop, that person is no longer black.]
Lauretta Charlton, The New York Times Book Review, December 22, 2019
Lauretta Charlton, The New York Times Book Review, December 22, 2019
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