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Re:Miles Davis: candid conversation with the jazz world's pr... by slibhb on Sunday June 25, 2023 @05:21PM (#36472714)
It's 1962. "Negro" was the polite word, you don't have to asterisk it.
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Re:Miles Davis: candid conversation with the jazz world's pr... by burnished on Sunday June 25, 2023 @05:49PM (#36472969)
Oh, that changes the meaning of the sentence significantly.
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Re:Miles Davis: candid conversation with the jazz world's pr... by csa on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:25PM (#36474612)
It does.

Fwiw, Alex Haley was also black, so he was perhaps asking from a shared perspective.

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Re:Miles Davis: candid conversation with the jazz world's pr... by megmogandog on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:50PM (#36475168)
I'm aware of the context and took no offense when I read it; I asterisked it for 2023.
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Re:Miles Davis: candid conversation with the jazz world's pr... by joebob42 on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:22AM (#36475708)
For what it's worth, the asterix is confusing. Your comment gave me a wildly different (apparently incorrect) impression.
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Re:Miles Davis: candid conversation with the jazz world's pr... by Ingaz on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:48AM (#36478047)
And "Black" was a pejorative.

Steven King used this in "Dark Tower" to show that members of ka-tet were from different times

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