New/old racist etymology

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/16/2013 02:17 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > "A Note on Terminology," in Black American
> > Reference Book, ed. Mabel M. Smythe (Englewood
> > Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976), xi---xii.
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>If I believed in the burning of books, this article would be soaked in
>napalm and first on the pyre.

You might tell us why.

Joel


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