31. The most accomplished black women can likely recall mothers or grandmothers who scrubbed floors in white kitchens, making life easier for white women of privilege. 32. They care more about scrubbing the floors, wiping grease off the stove and washing the windows than graying, stressed-out baby boomers. 33. They care more about scrubbing the floors, wiping the grease from the stove and washing the windows than aging, graying, stressed-out Baby Boomers. 34. We scrub our floors with all kinds of cleaners, but are not quite satisfied. 35. We scrub the floors. 36. Bullet holes that riddled a bathroom where the massacre began have been patched and covered with paint, and the floors have been scrubbed of all traces of blood. 37. One scrubs floors, another sneezes. 38. She scrubbed floors, changed diapers and taught English to hundreds of abandoned or orphaned babies. 39. The electricity flickered on and off as orderlies at the hospital scrubbed the floors. |