Re: RARA-AVIS: Throwing some gas(?) on a dying flame

From: James R Winter ( winter_writes@earthlink.net)
Date: 26 Mar 2005


Consider the context. The word didn't mean the same thing... Rather, it didn't have the same conotation... when Huck Finn was written. Use it in the 21st century the way Twain used it in the 19th, and you might want to bolt the door.

Back then, it wasn't really a slur, but over time, it came to symbolize a very bad phase of our history. Now it depends on who says it. [And to anyone who says that's not fair, guess what. Neither's life. Now get over it and watch your f***ing mouth. :-D]

Jim Winter

----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Zackel" < fzackel@wcnet.org> To: < rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:42 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Throwing some gas(?) on a dying flame

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