[wbill]

:-) I worked with a black gentleman named "Edward". He was working three jobs to put his kids through private school. Public schools in his neighborhood where about what you'd imagine. He also was extremely active in his church and tutored adult literacy courses, as he put it, "in his spare time".

I never asked him what he thought of names like Johnthony or TA'Hennesy. My guess is that he'd say that they're "fine names, and the people should be afforded all the same opportunities that anyone else would have". He was a far better man than me.

[Scarpetta]

True story. A bartender friend of mine had a black gentleman come into her bar and order a “Hennessy and Yoo-hoo.”

She told him they didn’t carry that.

He then asked for a “Couvassier and Yoo-hoo.”