"vacation cutting" -- not in OED

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> "Immigrant families [to the U.S.]
> from African and other nations have long sent daughters to their
> ancestral homes for the summer, intending to
>

Immigrant black families [to the U.S. North] from Texas and other Southern
states have long sent their children to their ancestral homes for the
summer, intending to keep them from running wild in the streets while their
parents are at work and to allow them to connect with their families and
traditions.


Looks like a for-real African survival, y'all!


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