Re: RARA-AVIS: The Op and San Francisco

From: Chris Routledge ( srcrout@ntlworld.com)
Date: 29 Oct 2001

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Bill

>I know "shine" is an old disparaging
>term for blacks, but I just can't figure out what it means here.

I believe light-skinned African Americans were sometimes used by Hollywood to make up the numbers in Westerns when they couldn't find enough Navajo. That could be what he's talking about.

Chris

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