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He spins these as race-neutral, but it isn't a coincidence that the alt-right circles obsessed with raising birth rates tend to be lily-white.

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There was something “rich and relevant,” Mr. Sanford said, “that you have this Black judge sentencing this guy — this lily-white guy — to life, whose family has been king for more than 100 years.”

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The lily-white patriarchal hierarchy of the British upper class that Meghan has sprung Harry from.

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For many Black and Latino New Haveners, that seemed to be the point; according to a local joke, the initials L.W.T. stood for “lily-white theater.”

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Was I buying into the lily-white version of motherhood or disrupting the feed with my presence?

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