Is my accent a crime?

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So it isn't a crime.

No, it isn't. But, sadly, it's not difficult to make a person feel
that way, especially if that accent is held to be (stereo)typical of
an entire subset of the "yuman" - as my East-Texas-born mother and my
Northeast-Pennsylvania-born wife coincidentally say - race.


-Wilson
–––
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.
–Mark Twain

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