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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion
  • Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:56:56 -0500


On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

But it is a bias on your part to think that the
person who named the crossing 'Nigger Ford' had anything but its color in mind. </HTML>

I will think about that. I suppose it is possible for some reason that the shallow clear water was dark then.

Your examples reminded me that growing up in Wisconsin, Brazil nuts were commonly called "nigger toes." I have no idea who started that.





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