"People of color" was; Re: Whom Hispanics call "Hispanic" -- or not

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 1 16:49:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm familiar with the term, "trick bag," of course. It's as old as
> "trick," as a slang term. They both date to at least the '60's as
> slang and may be older, BTW, had you even been born in those days?


Yeah, I'm h.s. class of '65. But I didn't have occasion to hear much BE,
those days.

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Mark Mandel

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