lily-white

There was something “rich and relevant,” Mr. Sanford said, “that you have this Black judge sentencing this guy — this lily-white guy — to life, whose family has been king for more than 100 years.”

The lily-white patriarchal hierarchy of the British upper class that Meghan has sprung Harry from.

For many Black and Latino New Haveners, that seemed to be the point; according to a local joke, the initials L.W.T. stood for “lily-white theater.”

Was I buying into the lily-white version of motherhood or disrupting the feed with my presence?

I paid a visit in recent days to the lily-white town of Mayfield, believed to be near the Great Lakes — were it not entirely imaginary.