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From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner)
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Subject: Re: Cthulhu Calls to Negro Americans?
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 11:09:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 11:09:57 1985
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[...]

About black detectives:

Have none of your friends ever heard of Boston Blackie?
This man was the hero of a radio show that aired (I believe
in the late 30s, early 40s).  A black detective from Boston,
of course, and as brilliant and hard-hitting as one would
expect of a PI in that era.  Now the 20s was a little earlier
than that, but if the entire country could accept a black
detective in the 30s, I suspect that he could get enough
acceptance to make a living in the 20s.

				Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo

P.S.  Acceptance is not the same as respect, and he would
be operating under serious resistance much of the time.  It
is possible that your GM just wouldn't want to go through the
hassle of playing a thousand and one black-haters during every
encounter.  As soon as your character got out of the major
urban areas, he would likely be confronted with a LOT of redneck
opposition.  And what kind of Cthulhu campaign doesn't get into
isolated parts of Maine now and then?