[PW] Re: Piece by Langston Hughes/Jesse B. Semple - "white man's but".

[Jeanne Schramm]

Try this: "Dear Dr. Butts"    http://kosmicki.com/234/DDB.htm
Jeanne Schramm, WLSC, W. Liberty, WV

On 2 May 2006 20:24:40 -0000, HardestyReference.24520792 at bloglines.com <
HardestyReference.24520792 at bloglines.com> wrote:
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> This question comes from a school teacher via his school librarian.
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> The
> teacher remembers reading a work that he believes was by Langston Hughes,
> possibly written under the pen name of Jesse B. Semple.  It may have been
> a letter to the editor or essay, or may have been a poem, but he seems to
> think it was prose.
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> His only concrete recollection is that the phrase "white
> man's but" recurs in the piece several times, in reference to whites
> offering
> something to blacks with a condition, a "but".
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