The punchline...

...of the titillating ellipsed quote from the first few pages so you'd buy the book to read it:

European men are color-blind in love. They don't care what color a girl's skin is, so long as she is worthy of his love.

And later on in the same chapter:

In the days of the Old South it was the plantation owner who raped the beautiful slave. The mulatto baby was the white man's creation, not the Negro's.

As a Negro I have no burning desire to marry a white. But at the same time, the thought of marrying a white doesn't revolt me. Everything depends upon the individual.

What would revolt me would be to have my sister marry a white with the mentality of a Faubus or Wallace.

End of chapter.