Heard on The Judges: call one out of one's name

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 9 18:33:44 UTC 2008


Twenty-ish, black female speaker from Alabama describing a tiff betwen
former friends:

"They _called my sister out of her name_! They called her a 'bitch!'"


-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.
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-Mark Twain

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