"I'm just a cop," Grave Digger said thickly. "If you white people insist on coming up to Harlem where you force colored people to live in vice-and-crime-ridden slums, it's my job to see that you are safe." The white man turned bright red.

After slapping a bartender and ordering a woman off her stool, Grave Digger turns the protective-cop routine back on the white patron who protested.

— Grave Digger Jones in Harlem Cycle #2 - The Real Cool Killers (Chester Himes, 1959)


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