considered ourselves too broad-minded to be bothered with questions of color. We liked people of any race who smoked incessantly, drank liberally, wore complexion and morality as loose garments, and made fun of anyone who didn't do likewise (Hughes 564).
The story, of course, turns on the joke that the white couple plays on the black narrator and his friend. It is a joke which reveals the
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