[My father] got in, ashen-faced, and quietly said, ‘Everyone stay in the car. They don’t like Negroes here.’ That was a rude awakening.
— David Alan Grier, on what his father taught him about being African-American in the U.S.
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[My father] got in, ashen-faced, and quietly said, ‘Everyone stay in the car. They don’t like Negroes here.’ That was a rude awakening.
— David Alan Grier, on what his father taught him about being African-American in the U.S.
