Racism in "Jazz"
page 199
Once I thought if I read the papers we'd saved I could argue with him.
But I picked wrong. I read about the white policemen who were arrested
for killing some Negroes and said I was glad they were arrested, that it
was about time.
He looked at me and shouted, "The story hit the paper because it was
news, girl, news!" . . . [Grandmother] explained to me what he meant:
that for everyday killings cops did of Negroes, nobody was arrested at
all.
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