And yet he can startle all-white Republican audiences full of women in pearls with sympathetic remarks about Mexican immigrants.

Cole's appearances before all-white audiences, the Chicago Defender charged, were "an insult to his race".

The virtually all-white audience at the hearing complained of being picked on because they live in a a working-class area.

"Often I present to an all-white audience," Jerry Pinkney added.

On the stump, he regularly talks even to all-white audiences about affirmative action, blasting President Bush for using the word "quota."

I like to work in front of all-white audiences to start it off, even with the blackest material.

But he told the all-white audience, "I am not even considering the possibility to discuss black majority government in South Africa."

In 1956 he was attacked onstage before an all-white audience in Birmingham, Ala.

The pace of the trials was extremely fast before the standing-room-only, all-white audience.

For Sam & Dave, it was their first time in Europe, largely to all-white audiences, sometimes up to 2,000 people.