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Dr. Lincoln In I Know Where The Caged Bird Sings
I chose Dr. Lincoln because he shows how racist people were before in that time and how they could be given a lot and still not help them if they were black. I came across Dr. Lincoln in chapter 24 in a book called I Know Where The Caged Bird Sings. Dr. Lincoln is a man that went through school to get a degree to get a dentistry. Dr. Lincoln looks like a normal or in other words common white guy. He is a normal white guy because he has brown hair, blue eyes. He wears a white jacket because he is a dentist and he uses glasses when he works on people's mouths. Dr. Lincoln acts very racist and says a lot of racist stuff such as¨ I do not want to put my hand in a …… mouth.¨ Thoughts that Dr. Lincoln probably have is that he may not have to pay

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