Letters.(Letter to the Editor)

KISS MY GRITS

To the Editor:

"Blubber-lips, hot-dog lips, Sambo lips. They used to call them 'nigger lips' in the South (and probably still do)..."

I'm not sure how to respond to Jan Avgikos's parenthetical aside regarding southern tendencies toward the use of the term "nigger lips" in her review of the Ellen Gallagher show at the Drawing Center [Reviews, Summer 2002].

I can assure Avgikos that the word is uttered no more frequently (and certainly no less) south of the Mason-Dixon line than it is to the north. Does she really think racism is ...

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