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We talked about Charles Brown slash Artemis Ward this week.

Yep.

I also said that I would talk about Don C. Sites this week.

You did say that. It was his

biographer. He wrote a biography of Ward in the, I think it was 1919. I just want to warn anybody

because it's an interesting biography, but if you go to read it, the introduction has a lot of gross racist stuff in it.

Yeah.

Which was definitely like part of the time.

But this writer's gross racist stuff is worse than Ward's gross racist stuff.

Huh.

Like it's really like, I don't even want to tell the stories involved because they're so yucky.

Yeah.

But, like, it's one of those things where there's an instance where Charles Ward does something to kind of, like, show how stupid this black man he's talking to is.

And then Sites makes a comment on the whole thing that is very, very gross.

So just if you want to go read some of this stuff, please know it is laced throughout with

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