How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. When I was in law school at night,

I asked a fellow student, a really sharp black woman, what a certain word meant. I had never heard it before.
She asked, how did they use it, referring to the two black men who I heard it from.
"Well, and least you ain't no peckerwood."

She started laughing so hard, tears ran down her face. "Looks like you got a new black friend. Peckerwood is black for woodpecker. An insult to whites. It talks about your noses being so sharp and long. The fact that you aren't one means you are one of the good ones. "

I thought long and hard about it. Eventually, I guessed my parents raised me right.