Bad Jokes & Ebonics

[Gary Elshaw]

To: Kyburz at ASU.Edu
From: Gary Elshaw <gary.elshaw at vuw.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Bad Jokes & Ebonics

I couldn't agree more Bonnie. My point wasn't to offend, it was to
illustrate what is out there; and furthermore what is being widely
circulated. I apologise to all if they were offended by the piece. It was
neither my intention or purpose.

Apologies,
Gary

At 6:30 PM -0700 on 18/2/97, Kyburz at ASU.Edu wrote:


> Is there any need to spread this crap any further.  Doesn't anyone
> understand that ebonices "jokes" are hate speech?  I mean, yeah, if you
> feel a great unbridled net-mediated freedom to be a public racist, then
> that's one thing.  But I think that some folks just don't know that this
> kind of stuff offends--really.


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