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Perhaps Mr. Beck could find his race if he looked under the category, “cracker, pale-face, whitey”?
Think Progress » Beck: ‘African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race.’ 2010
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Perhaps Mr. Beck could find his race if he looked under the category, “cracker, pale-face, whitey”?
Think Progress » Beck: ‘African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race.’ 2010
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Modern research has shown that the popular mythology surrounding Native Americans as tree hugging conservationists who were one with the earth is mostly a construct of the pale-face imagination.
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Driven westward we came, but the pale-face was here
Song of the Red Men 1996
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A moment of silence, then: "Me Indian; no pale-face name."
The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan
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And the doubting pale-face dwelling near the blood-red mystic stone,
Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance
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She looked extremely picturesque at a little distance, giving a nice bit of local color to the scene with her scarlet legs; but on a nearer approach, much of the value of the color disappeared before the unromantic facts of a pale-face petticoat and patent-leather gaiter-boots.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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Consider, chief; are you not enough my friend that you can afford to give me the pale-face girl?
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler
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Originally it stood out in the water, but the railway embankment has changed all this, and now it is overshadowed by great advertising boards which the pale-face provides for his traveling brother to feast his eyes upon.
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Grant, I pray thee, that it need not be I wed with Torquam's friend, the pale-face stranger.
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