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To: goodnesswins
But as the late John Henrik Clarke, dean of Afrocentrist scholars - who admitted that he "cried real tears when I realized that Haley was less than authentic" - argued: "We don't need no more fakers. We don't need no more phonies. We can take our tea with or without sugar."

"We don't need no more"?....is this what's passing for proper use of the English language amongst 'scholars' nowadays?

 

10 posted on 01/16/2002 7:34:49 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Psycho_Bunny
We don't need no more

To give this black academic credit, I think he's mocking a certain kind of style in academic African-American Studies. I doubt that he actually speaks this way. It's just a way of saying, "No more faking it!" I don't know the man, so I can't be sure, but that's my take on it.

17 posted on 01/16/2002 8:17:28 AM PST by Cicero
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