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To: doodad
If you heard some of the people in my office. That speech pattern has not changed still and is not a stereotype. He be and such.

Actually, such speech is of British Isles origin and has been used by whites in the past. Recall the "stereotypical" feudin' hillbillies in that Bugs Bunny cartoon where the hillbilly says "Be ye a Hatfield, or be ye a Coy rabbit?" Pirates are also sterotyped as speaking that way.

Similarly "ax" is Chaucerian Middle English and is used by whites in New Orleans.

Black English doesn't come from Africa. It comes from England and preserves anachronistic features of classes of British English speakers of former times.

84 posted on 03/25/2007 9:07:56 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Hinneh, 'Anokhi sholeach lakhem 'et 'Eliyyah HaNavi'; lifnei bo' Yom HaShem HaGadol veHaNora'.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

As described in detail in Thomas Sowell's book 'Black Rednecks and White Liberals'.


122 posted on 03/25/2007 12:21:08 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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