And for that terrible comment,... yes I did laugh and still grinning.
As penance you WILL read:
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson
https://www.amazon.com/Negro-Explorer-North-Pole-Autobiography/dp/1931229015
A short read.
He makes it to the top of the globe, no reports of this problem.
Free PDF over at Gutenberg Press.
PS:
There now are black Eskimos! Long cold nights!
Google it.
Actually, I’m in the middle of Sinclair Lewis’s Kingsblood Royal. Written in 1947, a white liberal in Minnesota discovers in midlife that he has negro blood. Hilarity ensues.
It’s not the zenith, pun intended, of Lewis’s work, but if liked Elmer Gantry, or Babbitt, or any of his other books, this has his style.