MEA CULPA.

Lazy posts will get you every time:

Do they have a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary where you work?

I noticed this quote on your “The Agitator” site, “Notice that Jesse Jackson
uses the word ‘unliterate,’ which itself is not a word, and calls into
question Jackson’s own level of literacy.”

According to the OED (which I think everyone would agree is the gold
standard for the English language) it is a word.

From the OED’s website:

unliterate, a.

a. Illiterate.
b. Unliterary; not interested in reading or literature.

Do a Google search on “unliterate” and you will find several uses in
context. It seems the main difference between “illiterate” and “unliterate”
is that an illiterate person is *ignorant* of reading or literature where an
unliterate person is *not interested* in reading or literature. So
“unliterate” IS a word and it could very well describe Bush.

Before you start calling into question other’s level of literacy you might
want to get a copy of the OED.

Yep. I’m a bonehead. My spellchecker couldn’t find an entry for “unliterate,” so I assumed it wasn’t a word. Bad move.

Of course, that doesn’t all change my opinion that both Jackson and the NAACP are irrelevant. “Colored” to them, no longer means black or brown. It’s a state of mind — victimhood, really. Liberal victimhood. Hence, Bill Clinton can be “blacker” than Clarence Thomas.

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