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‘A man can be white.’

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Made americans wary learn before men is free white, spend giggle site this website.
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In Wikipedia:

Appointed by his old enemy Colonel Mackenzie as sole Chief of the Comanches, he worked hard to bring education and the ability to survive in the white man’s world to his people.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It willcause SOME bw to feel guilty and disloyal (to bm) about being interested in a loving, lovable, suitable, and compatible man who might be white.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You never saw a grown man turn white so fast.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

What makes this part of the story interesting is that the man, yes is white, but Melissa’s mother is from Mexico and her father is from Haiti.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

White man? isn’t supposed to be racist in any way.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He could start by promoting honest, sincere unity among the races, perhaps by explaining his own chosen identity – this man is half white, yet he readily identifies himself as black.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The man is white, middle aged, and wearing a business suit.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This man is so white, he makes y? all look Mexican.
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In the British National Corpus:

The white man has no right to come here and take our country.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

An old man beside a pile of turf is white – washing an outbuilding.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

’ ’ anthem nh medical supplement insurance asked, for anthem nh medical supplement insurance (the Stage – coaches), there would be the last white man he’s putting a little loudly over the canvas tube was made at Liverpool.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Translated, of course, hope I did okay: The World as a Small Village If you scaled down the entire population of the world into a small village of 100 inhabitants, it would break down like this: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 Americans (North and South) 8 Africans 52 would be women 48 would be men 30 would be white 70 would be non – white 30 would be Christian 70 would be non – Christian 6 people would hold 59 % of the’ ‘world’s’’ riches, and all 6 would be from the USA 80 would have unsuitable housing conditions 70 would be illiterate 50 would be malnourished 1 would die 2 would be born 1 would have a computer 1 would have an academic degree If you awoke healthy this morning, you are luckier than 1 million people in the world who will not survive the next week.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

No offense, but Indian men are not white.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I don’t know so much about the U. K., but here in the U.S. I see enough mixed couples in which the man is white and the woman is Asian to suspect that Asian immigration might be having an impact on sexual relations.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Without his black clothes the man was as white as a marlin’s underbelly.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So many men, usually white, insist that their women shave or wax or undergo laser hair removal.
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In the British National Corpus:

In the opening address our message was that external and internal oppression need to be challenged and that as men and women, white and black, we have different tasks and opportunities for doing this.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The man turned white and pulled out his cell phone.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.