return of "colored"

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's double dumb. (The little girl's wearing a totemic football on her
shirt, but I don't mean that.)

The left-wing, PC, moralizing, Obama-linked, lamestream
Yankee-Jew media would *never* refer to a "young black male" as a "colored
boy," "handsome" or otherwise.

That cartoonist needs to watch more TV news!

PS: If you can trust Google Books (and in this case you can because I
checked with the NY Times) Jessica Tandy was the original "vision of
alabaster loveliness" as Abigail Masham in the play "Anne of England,"
which opened on Broadway on October 7, 1941.

JL



On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Sigh! That's Texas for you!
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> The little girl reminds of the turn of phrase popularized by Early
> Cuyler, of Dougal County, Georgia:
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> "A vision of alabaster loveliness."
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