To grow up decent, our children need new clothing to present themself in school in proper neat!! The sun have to shine for our children too. Amen.
Sign carried by a demonstrator in New York in 1969
To most citizens that complaint seems illiterate. To a linguist it is a good example of Black English, a dialect with its own grammar and vocabulary. For three centuries, it has been the language of most American Negroes, but until recently, both its origins and its rules have remained a mystery. Scholars once thought that it was either...
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