Jesse Jackson wants to ban "N-word"

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:56 AM -0800 12/2/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>I remember some national figure denouncing "Afro-American" around
>1970 as pernicious because it wasn't formally parallel to
>"Italian-American" or "Irish-American."  Evidently he'd never heard
>of "Italo-American," "Hiberno-American," "Anglo-American," etc.
>
>   He must have been aware of "Franco-American," but may have thought
>it referred to the Spanish dictator.
>
Or those awful cans of "spaghetti".

LH

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