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The Inside Out Black Whites And The Inside Out White Blacks

by John Keefauver

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Once upon a time there was a dedicated inventor who, after reasoning that everybody must be white on the inside, or at least not black, and that within this theory lay the answer to solving the world’s racial problem once and for all, set about to invent a pill that would make blacks white by turning them inside out.

After years of toil, the inventor, who was a black, one evening popped a pill into his mouth, and the next morning, sure enough, he woke up with the black outside of him in and the white inside of him out. Ecstatic, he at once started making more pills and knocking on doors in his black neighborhood, announcing excitedly in his new inhaled voice that if the black would swallow the pill he would wake up with his white insides out.

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