Nigger in the Woodpile

Jessie Emerson jessie at SIRSI.COM
Wed Sep 20 19:12:40 UTC 2000


My experience is just the opposite, only used by whites, but never by
blacks.

Jessie Emerson


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Shapiro"
Subject: Nigger in the Woodpile


> Another list serv is having a thread about the expression "nigger in the
woodpile."  One participant is arguing stridently that one of the meanings
of this phrase, an unacknowledged black forebear of a white child, is used
only by blacks and is not used by whites.



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