> on 5/2/03 1:50 AM, Henri Yandell at bayard at generationjava.com wrote:
>
>>> Tavis' guest mentioned that he had also done a word search for Kike,
>>> Mick, Hebe, Cracker, Wetback, Spick, Dago, etc and found nothing. The
>>> "N-Word" (for you purists) was the only racial slur he could find.
>>>
>>> Still with me? Here's the fun part.
>>
>> I don't believe these are very old terms and they've never been considered
>> legal words for the people [not that I know what all of them mean,
>> implying they are probably just US based words and not that old]. The
>> N-Word as you like to say is a latin descent word I assume and although I
>> don't know the derivation of who introduced it seems quite likely it could
>> have come from the medical community and/or the Romans.
>
> Each of them go back at least 50 years.
>
> John Roberts
>
>
More than puzzled!!!= Are we playing the time game? Five leters from Henri
appeared again in today's mail, with John Roberts naswering one that was
laid into the grave a couple of mohs ago. Who resurrected them? And where
were they before appearing again in our mailboxes?
Marta
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