On February 18, 1933, my father, Ebenezer Ray, debuted what appears to be his first column. He explains that he had been reporting on the courts for The New York Age for several years and was taking on the role of columnist. Seems he had issues with the use of first person, referring to himself in the third. “Altho the third person singular has been applied to the caption, the famous or infamous editorial ‘we’ will be used, which will stand for my scrapbook, the pigeonhole is my desk and me.”
The New York Age, February 18, 1933
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