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...golden red fox he trapped last week, and carefully compared it to similar pelts he's taken in previous years. "The weathah's been tricky foh the pahst coupla wintahs," he told me, taking a big piece of a pine branch out of his mouth. "But, t'ain't gonnah suhprise me if that theha fella is tryin to tell us somethin of this wintah...
...That ain't no place...
...current unpleasantness first surfaced publicly last April when Charles Merritts was re-elected school board president. "I'm the boss," he boasted. "I ain't going to stand for any criticism." Merritts, 56, the town's most influential politician and owner of a cab company, an insurance agency and several liquor stores, was used to having...
Troubles did not end with race. As Shaw notes, "All God's dangers ain't a white man." There was also the unyielding soil and unpredictable weather, the boll weevil, illness and wild fluctuations in the all-important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw explains, "and it's set before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton...
...campus protects them from the racism and repression of the American state should stop for a minute on November 16 and remember what happened two years ago. As far as we, as black students, are concerned, Pogo was only half right: we have, indeed, met the enemy, but he ain't us. Bruce Jacobs...