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So there was a scandal downtowm: LeRoi Jones Has Left His White Wife. It fit right in with dissolving black-white political alliances, as he later wrote: "What was the correlative or parallel scene being played all over the world which meant the same thing in all the different sectors and levels of human experience?" Close to home, though, it hurt most. There was pressure on all black people to end their interrracial relationships... "How could he," they said. "He felt he had to," I said. from How I Became Hettie Jones |
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