Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. (Ishmael Reed)

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Ishmael Reed

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