These notes may help readers identify people featured in the illustrations or explain some of the references that might not be familiar to those outside the US.
I’m expanding the notes as I get time and always grateful for any suggestions (or corrections!). It’s still a work-in-progress. 🙂
White is having your ego lifted when it snows.
White is sending black men to kill yellow men to protect the land white men stole from the red men.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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White is believing Egypt is part of Europe.
White is giving your old clothes to your maid.
White is wearing rings in your ears while laughing at people who wear rings in their noses.
White is a miniskirted teacher teaching black children to be ashamed of their bodies.
White is church in the morning and Ku Klux Klan meeting at night.
Robert Shelton was the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1961 to 1987.Â
White is calling Africa the Dark Continent.
White is right.
Unidentified, possibly George Wallace.
White is failing the chittlin’ test.
Chitterlings or chittlins are the cooked small intestines of pigs, cows, lamb, and goat. In the southern states of the US they are associated with Afro-American soul food.
White is saying “Thank God they want it segregated again”.
James J Kilpatrick was a journalist, writer and prominent supporter of segregation.
White is saying all blacks have a wonderful sense of rhythm.
White is saying “We’re all for equality but what would the neighbours say?”
White is making sure you don’t fall off your pedestal.
White is having two blacks in your school and saying you’re integrated.
White is wondering why black children don’t stay cute and happy all their lives.
White is hanging out a “soul Brother” sign during the riots.
White is knocking the numbers game, but playing the Stock Market.
White is being totally committed to black power until they start demanding black power.
White is tracing your family tree just to make sure.
George Wallace was a long-running Governor of Alabama and sought the Democratic Party nomination for president several times, all on a staunch manifesto of segregation.
White is believing George was Booker T.’s father.
White is looking in the dictionary to see what honky means.
President Lyndon BÂ Johnson
White is wishing Muhammed Ali had stayed Cassius Clay.
White is having Twiggy as a sex goddess.
White is allowing the blacks to fight for their freedom in Vietnam.
White is trying to get black with quick tanning lotion.
White is driving on Lenox Avenue at sixty miles per hour.
White is thinking you are the majority.
White is Miss America.
White is saving everybody’s soul except your own.
William Marrion Branham was an American Christian minister and faith healer who claimed to be a prophet who had come to prelude Christ’s second coming. He made a lasting influence on televangelism while facing charges of fraud and tax evasion. He was baptised and ordained a minister by the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, to whom he remained close throughout his life.
White is still thinking Custer won.
White is finding your identity in the Ajax commercial.
White is wondering what comes after “Up against the wall…”
White is not knowing what to call them.
White is thinking that black guys win the short dash but not the long distance races.
White is using black men’s hearts for white men’s lives.
White is speaking with a forked-up tongue and making false treaties.
White is walking hand-in-hand with a black man while watching for stares.
White is growing up nervous.
White is saying “My parents had it just as hard as the black people.”
White is a flesh colored band aid.
White is saying the Pledge of Allegiance with tears in your eyes and a gun in your hand.