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Dave Chappelle recently claimed that when Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T Washington over to the White House, Teddy received so much flak from the media for it that he supposedly said, "I will never have a nigger in this house again." How true is this story? NSFW

by /u/GoldenJoel in /r/AskHistorians

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