You cannot separate those influences from African dialect because at one point, slaves outnumbered whites, and they were also the predominate caretakers of white children.
You cannot separate those influences from African dialect because at one point, slaves outnumbered whites, and they were also the predominate caretakers of white children.
Thanks for giving the heads up.
@Haruhi Croissant
Makes you almost wanna hug Nixon like a long lost relative.
During slavery it was remarked upon by Europeans that you could barely tell the difference between how white Southerners and black slaves spoke.
You shouldn't require a "measured response" to get that black spaces are by their very nature safe spaces, and if you don't belong to that group, and in fact have certain privileges above that group, showing your whole entire ass is not acceptable behavior.
Basically.
Thank You
“which would improve that end of campus and created a safer/nicer corridor b/w the University and the CTA.”
“I don’t think that the university is conspiring to push people out as you say.”
“IMHO Obama has never been a friend to Chicago”
Religion really does a number on those of us who would like to have faith in our lives and yet also have mental issues to contend with.
Thank You! I miss my mom lol. The ritual of scratching then oiling the scalp, the rigid hands encasing my head to be still and hold position, me inevitably yanking my head when she hit a tender spot (and her inevitably yanking my head back into position, because braiding was a hard on the hands chore!). Feeling that…
I lost my grandmother to dementia so I know. You both put your thoughts well, and am grateful.
No this requires a lifetime supply of babywipes.
Congratulations, it sounds like a heady, hard fought for and ultimately well earned experience! Soak it up and luxuriate.
We really need to stop worrying about the folks who can be 'shamed' by Trump, because their numbers are nowhere near as large as we'd like to believe. This is a shameless administration with a shameless following, and all the possible swing voters are not worth caring about, becsuse if shame is truly a motivating…
I feel like we're in a night of the living dead film and they all need to be bludgeoned to death. I'm sick of them.
“I have no sympathy for people who vote against their own self-interest because of racism.
Cuba Gooding Jr is perpetually in the Racial Draft so I remain unsurprised by his fukboi ways