John Howard Griffin Quote
He told me how all of the white men in the region craved colored girls. He said he hired a lot of them both for housework and in his business. And I guarantee you, I’ve had it in every one of them before they ever got on the payroll. A pause. Silence above humming tires on the hot-top road. What do you think of that? Surely some refuse, I suggested cautiously. Not if they want to eat - or feed their kids, he snorted. If they don’t put out, they don’t get the job.
John Howard Griffin
He told me how all of the white men in the region craved colored girls. He said he hired a lot of them both for housework and in his business. And I guarantee you, I’ve had it in every one of them before they ever got on the payroll. A pause. Silence above humming tires on the hot-top road. What do you think of that? Surely some refuse, I suggested cautiously. Not if they want to eat - or feed their kids, he snorted. If they don’t put out, they don’t get the job.
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About John Howard Griffin
John Howard Griffin (June 16, 1920 – September 9, 1980) was an American journalist and author from Texas who wrote about and championed racial equality. He is best known for his 1959 project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South in order to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line first-hand. He first published a series of articles on his experience in Sepia magazine, which had underwritten the project, then later published an expanded account in book form, under the title Black Like Me (1961). This was later adapted into a 1964 film of the same name. A 50th anniversary edition of the book was published in 2011 by Wings Press.