Now Mammy?

Duane Campbell dcamp at CHILITECH.NET
Sun May 29 19:49:23 UTC 2005


Garrison Keillor just did an audience singalong of the Gershwin standard
:"Summertime." Toward the end he sang, " ... with Daddy and Mommy standin'
by," and it was like fingernails on a blackboard for me.

Has "Mammy" now become one of the racially proscribed words? (Incidentally
he did this right after a lengthy series of fart jokes.)

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