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Hi everyone,

Street lingo can fade fast. Common terms may become incomprehensible just ten years from now. Many of my readers are also not American, so here's a three word glossary:

Bear: a chunky and hairy queer. This sub sub culture even had its own magazine, Bear. On one cover, "OVER A TON OF FRESH MEAT AND FUR"!

Catcher: a receptive queer.

Rachet: Louisiana black pronunciation of wretched. Baton Rouge rapper Boozie Badazz defines it as "to be ghetto, real, gutter, nasty."

Drunk enough, a bear pitcher may just get it on with some bitchin' rachet. Racial harmony achieved!

Linh

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Hi everyone,

I just revised the ending to include this quotation. Tocqueville:

"The Negro race will not again depart the shores of the American continent, on which the passions and vices of Europe have set it down; it will disappear from the New World only by ceasing to exist. The inhabitants of the United States can put off the misfortunes they dread, but today they cannot destroy their cause."

Amazing how much he saw and understood just passing through.

Linh

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