Dr. Laura and the N-word; etymology and the N-word

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> [C]ommenters move quickly into antisemitic mode
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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That was what Richard Pryor was getting in his ca.1970 parody of a
roundtable on race.

Black militant [excitedly interrupting current speaker]:

"Everybody's always talking about the Jews... !!!"

Moderator [interrupting militant in his turn], sternly:

"Excuse me! No one here has said anything about the Jews."

Black militant [still totally freaking]:

"You will!!! You will!!!

--
-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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