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He yam what he yam

My father (far right) and other Future Farmers of America meet Sweet Potato Man:

This was back in the day when the laws in some parts of America denied half-human/half-tubers the right to use the same public accommodations as white people. Cruelly enough, in some cases that didn’t matter to Sweet Potato Man. He couldn’t very well be forced to the back of the bus if he couldn’t get his big ugly potato head through the bus door in the first place.

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Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option.

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