For those who wish to check out stories like this for themselves, one of the
very best sites is www.snopes.com.  I can't tell you how many "stories" I've
been able to disprove by checking them out there first.

Martha Katz-Hyman

On 6/23/07, Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Well, no wonder there was no citations, or places to find the truth.
> Thank you for clearing this up.
>
> Anita
>
>
>
>
> -- cagney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Anita,
>
> According to The Word Detective (http://word-detective.com), in a
> column
> published in newspapers on 11/05/98:
>
> "This horrifying story is, as I'm sure you suspect, not even remotely
> true.
> 'Picnic' first appeared in English in 1748, apparently borrowed
> directly
> from the French 'piquenique,' which combined 'piquer' (pick) with the
> obsolete French word 'nique' (trifle). The first picnics were what we
> would
> call pot-luck dinners. Only in the mid-19th century did 'picnic' come
> to
> mean a meal eaten outdoors. There is not, and never was, a secret
> racist
> history to 'picnic.'"
>
> Thank goodness that it is only an urban legend!
>
> Jean Spradlin-Miller
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anita Wills" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 2:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Violent holidays (was Re: Juneteenth)
>
>
> >I heard many years ago that pic nic, was a derogatory term for
> African
> >Americans. I did not research this term, but understood that it
> referred to
> >finding and killing a black person, and then having a Pic nic. Maybe
> >someone else knows exactly what the historical significance is of
> this
> >word.
> >
> > Anita
>
>
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