Regardless of your take on Anna Quindlen?s latest Newsweek column, I hope you find this attempted joke odd:
The felony was that Mildred was black and Richard was white and they were therefore guilty of miscegenation, which is a $10 word for bigotry.
Uh, no. It?s entirely possible that someone engaged in miscegenation could be a bigot. But the word describes an interracial marriage or cohabitation. I suspect Quindlen intended to say that those who would level a charge of miscegenation ? not those involved in the act ? were bigots.
In the words of Inigo Montoya, ?You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.?
