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NYT: Op-ed Piece on AAVE
Message 1: NYT: Op-ed Piece on AAVE
Date: 01-Oct-2004
From: Karen Chung <karchungntu.edu.tw>
Subject: NYT: Op-ed Piece on AAVE
There's an op-ed piece in the September 30, 2004 issue of the New York
Times online, entitled:
Changing Places
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Some excerpts:
The black vernacular seems to be everywhere these days, from Dave
Chappelle's show to Boost Mobile's ''Where you at?'' ad campaign.
''It becomes part of the mainstream in a minute,'' the poet Amiri Baraka
told me, referring to the black vernacular. ''We hear the rappers say,
'I'm outta here' - the next thing you know, Clinton's saying. 'I'm outta
here.' ''And both Senator John Kerry and President Bush are calling out,
''Bring it on,'' like dueling mike-masters at a hip-hop slam.
...
Is it possible, after all these years, that white folk have come to
speak ''black'' far better than blacks speak ''white''? Just axing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/opinion/30gates.html
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Karen Steffen Chung
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