When I was 19, I ordered waffles and a chicken sandwich at a Waffle House in West Memphis, Arkansas without knowing the cultural significance of what I did. She laughed in my face. I understood why some years later.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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