"C-Word" = cracker (UNCLASSIFIED)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 5 05:15:13 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Michael Newman
<michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu> wrote:
> they were completely unaware of honkey

Were those students at all aware of Huey, Bobby, and the history of
the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense? If they weren't, then it
wouldn't surprise me that they were totally unfamiliar with that
organization's special lingo.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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