Racial epithet makes news

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:44 PM -0400 7/7/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 7/7/2010 03:37 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
>>Surely someone has criticized even the changed version. Doesn't it mean that
>>Chinese people only and always eat with "sticks"?  And by mentioning it ("To
>>*think* that I saw it on *Mulberry* Street!") isn't the
>>narrator telling children that it's weird?
>>
>
>No.  Rather, that Lower Manhattan could be weird.  (And perhaps it
>was weird to see a Chinese man in a neighborhood of Italian
>immigrants.)
>
>Joel

He was surely just ahead of his time, given the current ethnic
composition of the neighborhood.

LH

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