[mikeb704]

But Mr. Barron has already 'splained all this to WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg:

"Well, let me say this to you. It's interesting that they would take that out of my speech. I think everybody knew there that was what we call improvision - oratorial improvision and black hyperbole. And y'all wouldn't understand that 'cause you're uptight and you're gonna take it where it was not intended.

Everybody at the rally laughed. White stage hands and camera people laughed. When I came off the stage, I shook hands with whites who were there and they congratulated me on a great speech. No one has taken that serious but you."

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Feckless]

How much of a sense of humor would he have had if that white stagehand had said "That was pretty funny, boy."? Used as white oratorial improvision and hyperbole, of course........

[lavrenti]

Charles Barron? My, my, my. You guys don't realize he authored a number of self-published "self-help" books. They make interesting reading.

[Neckbone]

"Well, let me say this to you. It's interesting that they would take that out of my speech. I think everybody knew there that was what we call improvision - oratorial improvision and black hyperbole."

Not to question the au fait Mr. Barron, but what is "improvision", I ax?

[ladyinred]

Oh Ha Ha. Can I ping Senator Lott to this article? I betcha he would get a belly laugh out of this one!