Actually no, she answers below that an article written in 1974 in England should not have used the word black to describe — a black man.

How is or was it racist for an English newspaper to use the word Black in 1974— which in the United States *was* the preferred nomenclature, being considered materially more progressive? How do English folk of African extraction refer to their race now (hint: they don't call themselves African-English)?

Ah yes, Glen Ridge! One of the guys, Jeffrey Archer, was a my college when the shit hit the fan. BC kicked him out, and there was a small firestorm about it, including an open letter written to the student newspaper from a group of his female friends all saying that they were proud to be his friends and that he…

It usually starts with that person telling me that my experience of myself is imaginary and they know better.

Oh for Christ's sake. This isn't even solipsism, you've moved beyond that into telling people they don't even have an experience of *themselves* never mind other people.

A little bit but not really, certainly no worse than any other homogenous group of tweens. That was kind of my point, there were no racist assholes other than a bunch of 11 and 12 year old boys, and that's almost a tautology.

What white people on the show were portrayed as racist assholes? The 11 year olds in the jr high cafeteria? ::tears::

Speak for yourself, not the rest of us.

I've lived here for 23 years and have never head of Boston Burger Company until your comment here. My first thought was Sullys in Cambridge, but they don't have a basement, and Bartleys doesn't serve booze.

Yeah I was about to start moving South, it didn't occur to me to go back up Rt 63! Who lives up there? I mean I guess in my head I knew that people did, but for some reason it seems weird to me.

Oh man, I would not have guessed Northfield in a million years.

Amherst, Hadley, Leverett, Pelham, Shutesbury, or Montague?

It really is a beautiful piece of prose, isn't it?

The officer in question was female.

As with the murder of the couple going to buy a car, this is one of those things that tests the strength of my belief that the death penalty is wrong.

Or just a skewed perception of her body.

What about pregnant women? Should they be kept out of the public arena for the duration? We can go back to calling it "confinement" — back in the days when Rubella was still rampant and caused birth defects and mental retardation of a severity that we have not seen in 50 years (or even before that, since babies born…

You could, but why would you want to? Bay scallops are really flavorful on their own, additions of slaw and other sauces would muddle the flavor.

Bay scallops are the B-O-M-B. So sweet and delicious, I sear them in butter like sea scallops and pop them in my mouth like pistachios. Delicious.

What kind of idiot doesn't know you have to cook eggplant? Has she never eaten eggplant parm? Did she not notice that there was something really different about her sliced raw eggplant and the eggplant one normally finds in an eggplant parm? Jesus.