Emerson was one of a small community of influential thinkers around his home of concord, massachusetts, known as :

If the united states became a "majority-minority” nation, o whites would be the majority, but there would still be ethnic minorities. there would be an equal number of whites and ethnic minorities. othere would be more ethnic minorities in the population than whites. o no one would be considered white or part of an ethnic minority group.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

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