May 20, 2010
from the comments
This reminds me in an oblique way of an incident from the childhood of a young woman I’ve known for years. When she was a baby, one or both of her parents dumped her on the doorstep of a Pakistan hospital; she was adopted by a ‘mixed’ US couple who pulled strings with the Pakistani authorities.
When the girl was eight or nine, she entered a (US) school poster competition: Martin Luther King’s Birthday. Her entry came in second or third, and in a fit of pique, she ripped one off at the first-prize winner. Told him she thought her poster was better.
Then the winner of the Martin Luther King’s Birthday poster contest called her a nigger.
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