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you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Boys
Supremacy
Realizing
Spoiled
White
Justification
Children
Scream
Way
Advance
Like
Racism
Except
Realize

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