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Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:09:02 EST
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What if I were to be offended by the use of "honkey" to denote the unhipness
of white people? Historicly, at least according to some of my very aged
relatives, the term "nigger" did not have quite the negative spin in Twain's
time as it came to have in later times.

Steve

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