If the black majority continues to see the same lily-white bosses heading companies owned by the same lily-white families, resentment will surely grow.

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The first source said Jackson's body was "lily white from head to toe, " perhaps the result of vitiligo -- a condition that causes the skin to lose melanin and produce slowly enlarging white patches.

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As the first black man to make it to the top of a lily white sport, jumping from a stellar amateur career to early majors victories, he was always going to be a household name, even if he never signed a single endorsement deal.

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The same forces will attract immigrants to places that have traditionally been lily-white.

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And California will be a better place if its politics is no longer polarised between aggressively multicultural Democrats and lily-white Republicans.

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The scenery is spectacular, full of jagged 10, 000-foot peaks, pristine glacial lakes and lily-white snowfields, punctuated by the odd elk or moose.

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Often, Mr Wilentz explains, the free-staters in places like Kansas were motivated by the ignoble desire to ensure that theirs was a lily-white enclave.

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In the 1930s and '40s, it would have been impossible for an African-American singer, however extraordinary, to sing Wagner's lily-white heroine in an opera production.

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The once lily-white Midwest and the once black-and-white South are becoming prime places for immigrants (eight of the ten states with the biggest growth in the foreign-born Mexican population are in the South, for instance).

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Marthinus points out an arum lily, a striking white bloom known as the 'death flower' because of its use in funeral arrangements.

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