The n/N-word

Mon Nov 8 23:01:57 UTC 2010

 
Or the Native American variation that the father of my childhood best friend (all of her family being members of the Crow tribe, in Montana) used to use on me: "Who's 'we', paleface?"
 
Lisa


> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:55:11 -0500
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> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > we
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> As a version of the punchline of the more-than-sixty-years-old joke goes,
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> "What do you mean, *we*, white man?"
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> -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.
> –Mark Twain
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