100%
We didn't write the rules, the rules just ended up playing in our favor.
His drop doesn't even count because he didn't know he had it.
Then you have people that could have passed but chose not to like Fredi Washington and Walter White.
George and Madeline took a kind but firm approach in rearing their children, encouraging hard work and regular schedules.
[6] In his autobiography, White relates that his parents ran a strict schedule on Sundays; they locked him in his room for silent prayer, a time so boring that he almost begged to do homework. His father forbade Walter from reading any books less than 25 years old so he chose to read
dikkens,
Thackeray, and
Trollope by the time he was 12.
[7] When he was 8, he threw a rock at a white child who called him a derogatory name for
drinking from the fountain reserved for blacks.
[7] Events such as this shaped White's self-identity. He began to develop skills to
pass for white, which he used later to preserve his safety as a civil rights investigator for the NAACP in the South.
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