After Discovery, State Quietly Moves to Purge N-word From Official Documents

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/30/2011 11:24 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Did you see the recent issue of SI that was devoted to Yogi? It
>mentioned his being from Dago Hill.

But wouldn't that be a historical usage, referring to Yogi's day, not
a modern usage?  (In journals, I've been allowed to use "Negro" if
it's an historical usage, in quotes; but not otherwise.)

Joel

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