"Uncle Tomming"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/uncle-tomming/
>

According to the late-great:

"He [a black policeman, when in the company of a white partner] may
_tom out_ on yo' ass."
-Richard Pryor, ca. 1967, in person; 1971, on the album, Hope I Don't
Crap! (Laff Records)

I find that sign to be more embarrassing than appalling.

<sigh!>

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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