I don't understand that.
"‘I can’t come home. I’m a white woman now.’"
I can only guess that she lied, she figured that she had to lie, about her family background, in order to marry her husband and start a family, because she was marrying into extreme bigotry. So she accepted that extreme bigotry as part of her life, and part of the life of her children as well.
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