Judge W. G. Boshoff: “But now why do you refer to you people as ‘blacks’? Why not ‘brown people’? I mean, you people are more brown than black.”Steven Biko: “In the same way as I think white people are more pink and yellow and pale than white.”(1976 trial of Steven Biko) On a brisk fall afternoon in 2005, my fifth-grade daughter came home from school rather sad and closed off. I sensed something was wrong. I asked her what the problem was. She told me that another girl at school was “bothering” her. My daughter’s grammar school was 99-percent Caucasian and in one of the top public-school districts in New Jersey. That is why …
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