"tar baby" in the news

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But Harris's stories were absolutely harmless - or so it seemed to me forty
> years ago.

IMO, Harris's stories are _still_ absolutely harmless, WRT their
intended audience. Always have been. Always will be. Harris probably
had not the least idea that slaves would ever read anything at all,
let alone his very audience-specific work.

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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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