The Devil's Dictionary: Negro

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
NECTAR
NEIGHBOR

NEGRO

-n.

The piece de resistance in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.

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