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October 1997

Mixed Up

My name is Tony and I'm an alcoholic. I'm also an African-American. I used to be Black, but that designation has changed in recent years. Both of my parents graduated from San Augustine (Texas) Colored High School in the nineteen-fifties, but the term "colored" is now offensive to. . .well, people of color. (This stuff gets hard to keep track of after a while!)

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