[78-L] Racially Offensive Language/Robeson.^

[Julian Vein]

Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:16 -0500, Donna Halper wrote:
>> In fact, a well-respected Boston author and talk show host, 
>> Paul Benzaquin, wrote a book about the Cocoanut Grove Fire and called 
>> it "Holocaust," which meant "a huge fire" back then.  When the book 
>> came out for re-issue in the 70s, he had to change its title because 
>> the meaning of the word had completely changed.
> 
> Just to complete the irony, he's probably Jewish. Benzaquin, spelled
> several different ways, is a common surname among Sephardic Jews.
> 
> MS
> 
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I hear that the African slave trade is now known as "Roots".

      Julian Vein