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  • That's not to mention beige, or "beeiiige," for which my eternal visual is a 1970s car and a white-man afro.

    Philippa Young: Camel: It Doesn't Matter if You're Black or White Philippa Young 2011

  • He was a big, hulking Indian clad in approved white-man style, with an Eldorado king's sombrero on his head.

    THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN 2010

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was rich but wasn't white-man rich.

    CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2010 2010

  • I always see lots of mixed couples—lots of black men and white women, lots of black-woman, white-man couples.

    Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010

  • In this they could also make common cause with the church in the third world, particularly equatorial Africa, newly assertive of its influence in a previously white-man dominated denomination and in cultural denial of the existence of gay people.

    Gene Robinson's losing battle to be known as simply 'the bishop' Stephen Bates 2010

  • She has enough "white-man" vendetta to continue to tear open scars from centuries ago.

    Obama: GOP trying to make me and Michelle 'scary' 2008

  • By the time she returned to the dining room, a portion of the floor had been transformed into a makeshift disco with college-boy waiters doing the white-man overbite, beefy line cooks exhibiting surprisingly graceful footwork, and trained ballerinas-slash-hostesses doing their best Hustle.

    Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010

  • I need to be reminded regularly who the "hostiles and savages" were when the white-man givers manifested our destiny by slaughtering the American Indians so we could build cities and towns with indoor plumbing.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Leavenworth Kansas home of the "Birdman"" 2010

  • He had been foremost among the white-man haters; he had burned hottest for revenge for the death of his father, the capture of his mother and sister, and the death of his nephew and other friends and family.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • The angry white-man of the Clinton era is being resurrected.

    Let Them Eat Cake! 2009

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