New/old racist etymology

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> You might tell us why.

For the usual reason that people burn books: it's not always possible
to burn the person who wrote the book, since burning at the stake has
gone the way of the dodo.

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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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