New/old racist etymology

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Mar 16 06:17:17 UTC 2013


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> “A Note on Terminology,” in Black American
> Reference Book, ed. Mabel M. Smythe (Englewood
> Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976), xi---xii.

If I believed in the burning of books, this article would be soaked in
napalm and first on the pyre.

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-Wilson
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