[Dixielandjazz] Re: Minstrel Shows

[MortW]

For sure! 
It's no more derogatory than kike, mockie, or Christ killer. 
Mort Weintraub

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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Minstrel Shows

Dan, I don't beleive that 'Nigger' was necessarily a deragatory term
years
ago.  It was in early usage simply a word to denote people of dark skin.
The same goes for 'darkie.'

Jim Beebe

Yeah, just like the term for an adult black male down South - "Boy". Are
you 
kidding? Suggestion: try a spellchecker too!
Brian Wood
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