Bruce and LBJ

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Thanks thanks Steve M. for clearing this up, finally and forever, for me at least.  Now to 
go outr and find the thing and listen to it again.

john m
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Steve's explanation:

>
>As I remember it (yes yes yes I know the dangers of relying on memory) 
>from a book that I _forget_ the title of (I think I still have it at
>home and can provide info. later if anyone's interested) that provided a
>transcription of some of LB's routines: 
>
>LB had LBJ trying to say negro and repeatedly slipping into nigra.  The
>humor comes from the whole exercise being an attempt by LBJ's handlers to
>change his image because (whether or not nigra indeed was the "proper" 
>southern pronunciation of negro) to those from outside of the cotton belt
>the connotation of the use of the word nigra was that the speaker was
>probably an inveterate racist (and quite likely inbred). LBJ was unable to
>make himself say negro, and while I can't claim to know Bruce's intent it
>_seems_ that he was saying that a leopard can't change its spots.
>
>	Steve Maas
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