When do people not protest unfairness? The case of skin color discrimination.

From: Social Research | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Hochschild, Jennifer | Copyright information

It was a color thing and a class thing. And for generations of black people, color and class have been inexorably tied together.

--Lawrence Graham (2000)

Well-to-do, fair-skinned kids in the neighborhood weren't allowed to play with him and they regularly taunted him about his color, Jones says.... "That's been a dominant force in my life," he says. "Having lived through those experiences gave me the desire to fight for the disadvantaged."

--Robins...

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