ebonic be jokey bad
Mittelwerk at aol.com
Mittelwerk at aol.com
Wed Feb 19 02:40:15 CST 1997
varieties of worst:
1) gleeful conservative sadism that blacks had the audacity to embrace the
language given them as an insult;
2) narcissistic progressive mewling over the 'democratic' potential of a form
of language which is only such because it is too objectively weak to express
individuality. (cf. the new Tommy Hilfiger Kwanzai! WinterWear line);
3) the waste-my-time impulse of internet-watchdog perfessers everywhere, who
think the dispossessed should be granted their vials of Ebonicized lotos only
insofar as the possessed can take pity on them for wanting it.
Gimme Five!
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