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More Bed-Stuy Brilliance | August 07, 2007 | 20:34

While walking home today, I passed some wiry, weathered-old black man who looked like he'd been sucking on a crack pipe continuously for a decade.

He made a jerky motion with his shriveled arm, widened his yellow eyes and said:

"You're a white boy, huh?"

"You're perceptive," I replied without breaking stride.

He continued on as well and as the distance between us grew, I wondered if he'd even heard me and then felt I should have said:

"Nope, I'm black."

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