9,840 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

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“We Black folks be knowin we got some unique patterns of language goin on up in here in the U.S. of A. Yet, still today, in the twenty-first century, after more than four decades—count ’em, foe decades!—of research by language scholars, it’s some people who say Black Language ain nothin but ‘slang and cuss words,’ or ‘it’s just broken English.’ Not to mention those who be sayin ain no such thang as Black Language! Well, I guess it’s always gon be some folk don’t believe fat meat is greasy. Dem’s the ones gon be left behind in the dustbin of history.”
-Geneva Smitherman, Word From The Mother: Language and African Americans