Jones
Gave me a chuckle and if the problem were not so serious I may even smile.
Back when our children were in grade school, the local schools integrated in
the 1960's, I caught flack from commenting " you people believe
integration will lift them up , I have news for you, they will drag you down
to their level". They are their own worse enemy. They unify only against
other races while destroying each other. Thomas Jefferson should know <
grin> , he was asked what the solution to the race problem was.. he said..
there is NO solution.
Richard
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From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "vortex" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 8:45 PM
Subject: Way-OT: Mo' de king's English
On a lighter note... The LENR web site, as translated into "Ebonics":
Dis site features some library uh sheets on LENR, Low Energy Nuclar
Reacshuns, also knode as Col' Fusion. 'S coo', bro. (CANR, Chemically
Assisted Nuclear Reacshuns, be anoda' term fo' dis phenomenon. 'S coo',
bro.) It features some library uh mo'e dan 400 o'iginal scientific sheets
in Acrobat fo'mat, reprinted wid puh'mission fum de audo's and publishers.
De sheets is linked t'a bibliography uh ova' 3,000 journal sheets, news
articles and scribblin's about LENR. Click on de CONTENTS listed on de
left t'see, dig dis dawg....
Courtesy of the "Dialectizer" aplet
http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectt.cgi
Probably the best Litmus test of Liberalism in the USA these days is
so-called Eubonics-test, bro.
OK I fail miserably... and hate this concept of any alternative language
for American subcultures - insofar as becoming *institutionalized* that
is, and given the patina of real accetpabilitiy. Whether it be red-neck,
Valspeak, cajun, latino-homey or eubonics .... OK on-the-streets, or on
the comedy circuit - it's fine - but in the context of schooling, this
trend is dispicable as a reverse-racist, total educational cop-out by weak
teachers, and a relinguishment of intellectual rigor... plus if you only
knew the warped history of it ...
OTOH, all language derivatives, and black-English in particular, are most
amusing in certain situations - and will not ever just "go-away" so get
used to it, dude ... and now that Lee (Iacocca not Spike) and
Snoop-whatever are a TV pair-made-in-heaven, some would say that "we have
come a long way."
Hmm... I'm not too sure about that. Apropos of nothing, really but the
other Lee's (Spike) current satire of collective black pop-culture, as
targeted in "Bamboozled" probably sees Snoop as the latest "Super Magical
Nigger," i.e.a racial sterotyped icon which can be manipulated to use
their own vodoo magic to help white people, but can't help themselves.
"Same old, same old." according to Lee -Like we made a lot of real
progress. Got rid of uncle Tom, and everything's A-O-K.
So by this Eubonics Liberalism test, I am right in there with Jesse - as
in Helms, not Jackson, while still agreeing with Lee (Spike not Iacocca)
on how far we have really progressed towards a homogeneous society. OTOH
it is far preferable to the division between Sunni and Shia. Life is
absolutely filled with the unexplainable. Also apropos of nothing, really,
it all probably goes back to Buckwheat and "Our Gang" but according to him
as quoted in the NYT: "Farina, Stymie and I only spoke that way in the
movies because white people wrote the scripts. Our parents and teachers
would never let us get away with speaking anything but proper English when
we weren't working.
Another case in point (the point being the humorous irrationality of
life): it was nearly ten years ago now that the Oakland School Board ruled
unanimously to teach Ebonics (which some argue is a dialect of English
spoken by some African-Americans) in school as a second language, then
backed off. My neighbor at the time in Berkeley was a 25 year old recent
Cal grad, liberal Jewish (actually a "Ju-Bu" formerly Jewish turned
Buddhist - very common these days) who claimed vociferously that he
himself started the whole Ebonics trend, including the name, kind of as a
"blacker-than-thou" inside joke, just to show the other teachers (almost
all black but comparatively conservative) what it meant to be really
Liberal.
I hope Firesign Theatre will pick up on this.... or have they?
Jones
"Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death"
