Patricia Briggs Quotes
What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.
Briggs, Patricia. Fair Game. Ace Books, 2012.
Describing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in speeches in the 1960's:
He was the first Black major News Anchor in France. The racist history of France has run to extremes. In many respects, and explicit in the French Constitution, France has been the most racially tolerant nation in Europe. However, there has always been a virulent racist minority and at times they have controlled the Government. During WWII, there were a very large group of racist Nazis who, under German occupation, collaborated and ran the Vichy government. At the time there was a substantial minority who had attained some political influence and were extremely nativist and racist against Muslims and Blacks.
The law enforcement officers were the ones who broke the law when they beat and brutalized the peaceful civil rights marchers. The “white niggers” refer to the white marchers including clergy.
Theodore Roosevelt, became President when President McKinley was assassinated. One thing that he did was to have the Negro leader, Booker T. Washington to lunch at the White House. He had previously had Blacks in his famous Rough Riders. Although Roosevelt had not taken a public position in inter-racial marriage, in the South, and much of rest of the country, accusing someone of favoring miscegenation was as serious an insult as there was. The accusation was used to attack anyone who did not favor segregation, lynching and Jim Crow in the same way that people who favored Medicare or Labor Unions were called “communists”. Cardamon himself was the target of many for his disrespectful and gross description of the president. See Quotation
Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series.
