Honorary whiteness must be one powerful drug
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Jul 24, 2019
2 minutes
You had to become an "honorary white."
That was the status South Africa used to bestow upon black performers from the United States who visited the apartheid regime. The O'Jays, Tina Turner, Ray Charles and Eartha Kitt were among those who received that designation, allowing them access to hotels and restaurants from which black Africans were barred.
It was, as
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