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Re: Ebonics

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Ebonics
From: [email protected] (Mike Duvos)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 23:10:15 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <v03007801aee10fd61030@[207.167.93.63]> from "Timothy C. May" at Dec 20, 96 08:01:04 pm
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Tim May writes:

> Yeah, Matt, in a free society I wouldn't have to "speak Ebonics."

> If I were designing a genocidal program to destroy the colored race, I
> would be pushing for Ebonics, for encouraging coloreds to study "Human
> Potential" and "African History" instead of math, science, and engineering,
> and pushing for hiring quotas.

When I read Tim's original message on "Ebonics", I thought it was one
of those witty parodies he occasionally comes up with.  

Then I turned on the NBC Nightly News, and lo and behold, "Ebonics" 
was one of the featured stories, replete with commentary by former
New York mayor Ed Koch. 

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