From Silas Weir Mitchell's The Youth of Washinton (1907):
He was the only black man I ever saw who could handle bees, for these industrious little insects have a great enmity to negroes.
Mitchell stuffs these words in George Washington's mouth and is lauded as the most patriotic American novelist ever by no less than three national newspapers. The Washington Bee wasn't one of them.
Go figure.
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