Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
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Read between January 14 - January 15, 2022
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‘He disagreed with something that ate him.’
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Hardly anywhere in the world will you find a negress driving a car. A negress acting as a chauffeur is still more extraordinary.
Mark Boyle
Casual racism count #1
18%
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‘I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a great Negro criminal before,’ said Bond, ‘Chinamen, of course, the men behind the opium trade. There’ve been some big-time Japs, mostly in pearls and drugs. Plenty of Negroes mixed up in diamonds and gold in Africa, but always in a small way. They don’t seem to take to big business.
Mark Boyle
Casual racism count #2
20%
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what a brilliant set-up for dealing with the smaller fry of the Negro underworld and for keeping a coloured information network well up to the mark! – the fear of Voodoo and the supernatural, still deeply, primevally ingrained in the Negro subconscious!
Mark Boyle
Casual racism count #3
35%
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he was worried about Leiter in the hands of those clumsy black apes.
Mark Boyle
Overt racism count #1