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But they were also a swipe in the face of a family that knows well the price of being black in America, a family whose roots are traced to slaves freed after the Civil War. Ben and Harry’s father was once the president of Norfolk State University, a historically black college. Ben went to Harvard and Harry to Dartmouth, they became lawyers at a time when such achievement was not simple for a black man in America. In many ways not “black enough” might have been the cruelest thing anyone could have said.
But they were also a swipe in the face of a family that knows well the price of being black in America, a family whose roots are traced to slaves freed after the Civil War. Ben and Harry’s father was once the president of Norfolk State University, a historically black college. Ben went to Harvard and Harry to Dartmouth, they became lawyers at a time when such achievement was not simple for a black man in America. In many ways not “black enough” might have been the cruelest thing anyone could have said.
