from Goldberg’s book (via Search Inside on amazon.com):
“Sheila Jackson Lee is a black Congresswoman from Texas who has put her finger on one of the great problems facing African-Americans in these United States of America. There aren’t any hurricanes named after black people. I guess that m means there aren’t enough hurricanes named Keisha, Jamal,
DeShawn, or LaToya. I mean, black people also have such names as (such recent hurricanes as) Charley and Frances but I’m
pretty sure that’s not what she’s talking about.
“Congresswoman Lee believes hurricane names shortchange
black kids...She hoped federal weather officials ‘would
try to be inclusive of African-American names’. That’s
right. Hurricane names like Andrew and Bonnie and Ivan
are just too darn white. We need affirmative action when it comes to naming destructive storms. Right on, sister!...
Here’s a news flash for the congresswomen: Hurricanes
are bad. They’re deadly. People don’t like them. If I
were you, I’d try to pass a law MANDATING that all
hurricane names, without exception, be restricted to
Skip and Biff and Muffy, as a kind of reparation for all
the bad stuff that has happened to black people over the
years in this country.”
That’s right: Hurricane Muffy, all right!
"foety acres and a hurricane"