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Maybe White People Should Feel Bad
The Root ^ | October 22, 2921 | Michael Harriot

Posted on 10/24/2021 11:52:29 AM PDT by artichokegrower

America be lying.

Although language purists will argue that the previous sentence is grammatically incorrect, it shows why African American Vernacular English (AAVE), is sometimes more accurate than Caucasian American Vernacular English (CAVE).

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bs; lies; propaganda; racist
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To: artichokegrower

Funny, I don’t remember asking for these snowflake’s useless opinions.


21 posted on 10/24/2021 12:10:40 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Did they bring it up because the oh-so-righteous Northerners brought it up?

Perhaps so. I mean, we’re talking discussions going on nigh 40 years to this.

Don’t be deluded about how important slaves were to Northerners. First of all, slavery was allowed, period, including in “loyal” states. Abolitionists were not overwhelming. Just like today’s liberals, they were the loudest and the most obvious for same. Plenty of Yankees said they were not interested in dying for some black slave.

Please tell me where these “revisionists” are and how much power they have over the narrative. You won’t find any of that revisionism (if it is) in textbooks today, nosirree.


22 posted on 10/24/2021 12:12:26 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: artichokegrower
Maybe White People Should Feel Bad

Nope.

23 posted on 10/24/2021 12:17:19 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: artichokegrower
Although language purists will argue that the previous sentence is grammatically incorrect

Actually genuine grammatical fanatics would argue the opposite. The problem is that one of the most natural verb forms in speech is the subjunctive which is used to express hope, fear, uncertainy, tentiveness, conditionality, etc. Unfortunately one of the mania's in so-called English education has been to drive the subjunctive out of the language, with the College Board which runs the SATs right at the top of the list.

If you admit the subjunctive then a correct English expression is "If I were king, I would abolish Taco Tuesday." The were is subjunctive and derives from the equivalent Anglo-Saxon verb form There is/was a present tense English subjunctive which uses the form "be." So, "He be lying" is actually a correct grammatical expression, as in "I think he be lying." vs "I think he is lying." The former is a tentative hypothesis; the latter a statement of fact that could engender a slander suit if you are wrong. But it takes modern Marxists to excise a natural form of expression that exists in almost every classical language in the world. We lose because our language is less rich as a consequence.

24 posted on 10/24/2021 12:21:01 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: artichokegrower

Yup, and maybe, just maybe the author is a racist liar. Could be...


25 posted on 10/24/2021 12:21:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: super7man

These Dem lies are destroying us. Our military has some 9 % LGBT. I threw out fags .


26 posted on 10/24/2021 12:22:59 PM PDT by Lumper20 (Get the border wall built and get back to work on the keystone.)
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To: cuban leaf

Just read the original article of succession from South Carolina. At the start the South said it was about slavery and the North said it was about preserving the Union.

Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp


27 posted on 10/24/2021 12:24:00 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: artichokegrower

“For more than a century, school districts preferred textbooks that taught students about “happy slaves” and framed the Civil War as a disagreement over taxes.”

Psychobabble bullshit.


28 posted on 10/24/2021 12:24:19 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Were State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims the guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide "vaccine" tests?)
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To: artichokegrower
For more than a century, school districts preferred textbooks that taught students about “happy slaves” and framed the Civil War as a disagreement over taxes.

At 59 years old and having attended public school my entire life, the above statement is a flat-out LIE.

We were taught about slavery, the underground railroad, Booker T. Washington, the abolitionists and more. NONE of that would've been taught if there were "happy slaves."

The author of this crap is a complete idiot. Correction: complete LYING idiot.

29 posted on 10/24/2021 12:26:26 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: artichokegrower

Asking all white people to feel bad for all racism is the equivalent of asking all black people to feel bad for all crime.


30 posted on 10/24/2021 12:26:40 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: artichokegrower

Ppfffttt...


31 posted on 10/24/2021 12:26:52 PM PDT by SE Mom
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AAVE, CAVE, & JIVE

Johnson’s Inarticulate Vernacular English


32 posted on 10/24/2021 12:29:15 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: metmom

And who sold them into slavery in the first place and lots of them today adhere to islam.


33 posted on 10/24/2021 12:31:07 PM PDT by SkyDancer (A Stranger Is A Friend You Haven't Met Yet)
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To: artichokegrower

AAVE = Ghetto Retard. I work around all kinds of people and it’s obvious who is dumb as a box of rocks.


34 posted on 10/24/2021 12:35:09 PM PDT by CtBigPat (The time of Crisis is ending. Now comes Normalization.)
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To: artichokegrower

The bottom line is that if it were not for the unfortunate existence of slavery in North America, then those American descendants of slaves (including those alive today) never would have existed. It is only through slavery that these certain people actually met and procreated. As distasteful as slavery is to us today, it is the only reason many people are here as genetically unique living, breathing human beings today. Some good can come from bad.


35 posted on 10/24/2021 12:35:27 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: artichokegrower
I axed my inglish teacher and she be like....I wouldn't do that $hit if I was youse,dawg.
36 posted on 10/24/2021 12:36:16 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Wild Kitty, I could use your help in the spring with my garden. I be needen mo fertilizer.


37 posted on 10/24/2021 12:38:12 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Republican Wildcat

our current federal government is run by demonrats...

their actions and double standards prove the kung flu is a lie and a scam...


38 posted on 10/24/2021 12:40:25 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: AndyJackson

Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.


39 posted on 10/24/2021 12:40:36 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ctdonath2

“ White people felt so bad about children being locked in cages that the anti-immigrant Trump administration changed its family separation policy. ”

The author should realize that the Biden open borders are going to have a huge negative effect on black Americans. They will compete for housing, jobs education funding etc.


40 posted on 10/24/2021 12:41:09 PM PDT by artichokegrower (I )
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