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Mamma Cheese
It was always a gamble going somewhere with Mamma Cheese. She was light-skinned. The white women disliked her because they thought that she thought that she was “as good” as them. But the black women disliked her because they thought ...
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Daddy Cheese refuses
My dad, Nathaniel Spain Chism, whom we all called Daddy Cheese, or just Cheese, told the following story. He got drafted and went into the Navy. But he ended up in the brig–in prison. Why? The ...
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About Uncle Toms
I was at the family home, on 92nd. I was ranting and raving, calling certain black leaders “Uncle Toms.” My dad, who was just a plain working-class carpenter, got angry and said, “Boy, what the HELL ...
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Talking about the Green Book
Back in the day, black entertainers could not stay in hotels when they came to Chicago to perform. At our family home at 9201 S. Perry, once Dick Gregory rang the bell. WOW!! I happened to ...
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Why I hate PC
“NO-LEGGED MOTHERFUCKER!!” I’d left the lunch room at Malcolm X Junior College, in Chicago. I decided to eat my food at one of the tables that were located in the hallway, just outside the lunch room. ...
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