Bruce routines

[LBernier at tribune.com]

Well, I haven't heard the Bruce routine, but it's likely he could be trying to 
use the "correct" word nigra and keeps slipping into nigger. Or it could be 
Bruce mishearing or not understanding that nigra probably as close as someone 
with LBJ's accent could get to Negro, and that it is not inherently an insult.  

Probably not much help, I know.

Jean.
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Subject: Re[3]: Bruce routines
Author:  <MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu> at Internet_tco
Date:    2/24/97 3:20 PM


Jean,
Now I'm totally confused.  Is the word he's TRYING to say *nigra* but he keeps 
sl ipping 
into *nigger* or is he trying to say *negro* but keeps slipping into *nigra*?  
Th at is how I
remembered it, assuming *nigra* was an explicit insult.  But if you are correct 
( as how
 could you not be, since you speak Southonics?), and *nigra* is the same word as 
     
*negro*then  there wouldn't be a joke there.  So, can you clear this up?
 I swear I hear him slipping over and over into *nigra*, but then, I'm the one 
 wh
o swore 
it was Michael Jackson not Donny Osmond singing *One Bad Apple* so--call me the 
G en. 
Barry McCaffrey (sp?) poster child of the week!
     
john m
     
austral jean corrects:
     
>     No, the word is Nigra, which, as you yankees obviously don't know, is 
>     simply Southern for Negro.  
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>     Jean.
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>Subject: Re: Bruce routines
>Author:  "Henry M" <gravity at nicom.com> at Internet_tco 
>Date:    2/21/97 10:46 PM
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>Well sure, he does say "nigra." He's Trying to say negro! But the 
>word he's having a hard time escaping would be "nigger." And yes, 
>there's a lot of LB on CD. Perhaps even the excellent, fomer 3 
>record, In Concert, or was it Live at the Curran Theater: post bust, 
>no "bits."
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>On 21 Feb 97 at 14:49, MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote: 
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>> >From Henry:
>> 
>> >Sure. Any comic could do it, no matter the race. That routine makes 
>> > fun of a president who grew up using the word "nigger" trying to 
>> >learn the word of the day that his handlers are insisting on. 
>> >Doesn't stereotype a race, does it? 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> If memory serves, it's not *nigger* he keeps slipping into, but 
>> *nigra*--which is the heart
>>  of the humor, IMO.  That perfect little touch, unless my memory's 
>>  failed again.  How can 
>> I listen to this bit?  Did any of Bruce get onto CD, audiophiles? 
>> 
>> john m
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>> 
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