[Ads-l] Nominal ugly

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Oct 9 15:42:50 UTC 2020


Thanks, Joan. I didn't think to look up "...love...."

JL

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM Joan Hall <
00000876364530cf-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> DARE’s first citation for “God don’t love ugly” is from 1899:
>
> 1899 Stevens Point Daily Journal (WI) 1 Feb [3]/5 (newspaperarchive.com),
> Chicago IL [Black], God don’t love ugly, dat is de reason he’s goin’ ter
> destroy de white folks an’ save only dose cullud people who flee de wrath
> ter come.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
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