[The Urban Sombrero]

Well on BGR, it is "lighten up Leroy"....lighten and LeRoy, both start with an L...Gives it sort of a rhythmic twang.


Some folks say a lot of things, Geraldo...We all put up with you and your racist innuendos, don't we?

In STRIPES, it was "Lighten up, Francis."

Well, Bob, given American history, Trail of Tears, slavery, Jim Crow laws, scapegoating of immigrants, Rodney King cops trial, right on up to today, I'd say the American story on race and ethnicity chugs up a lot to think about in human nature. Not just one color's nature, but human nature.