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- From: KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination,soc.culture.african.american,misc.education
- Subject: Re: Parks attempts to respond and doesn't!!!!
- Message-ID: <92358.071033KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 12:10:33 GMT
- References: <Bz79KH.Jr9@quake.sylmar.ca.us><1992Dec15.012737.19706@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- <92350.073025KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu><BzoKAx.5zI@agora.rain.com>
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- In article <BzoKAx.5zI@agora.rain.com>, robart@agora.rain.com (Joe Bob) says:
- >
- >In article <92350.073025KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu> KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec15.012737.19706@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
- >>Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) says:
- >>>
- >>>>Would you PLEASE explain why you insist on spelling "black" as "blak"?
- >>>
- >>>I don't.
- >>>
- >>>
- >> As you can see, our own Ms. Parks has responded to the question with her
- >>usual straight forward answer that gets to the heart of the matter. In other
- >>words, she still hasn't answered the question! In the post following this ,
- >one
- >> she continues to use a spelling of the word I can not find in any
- >dictionary,
- >>or reference book. I realize that the exalted Terry Parks knows all, but if
- >>she is going to make up her own language, and use it on a public network, the
- >>least she could do is to explain it to us!
- >
- >
- > In the past, someone on soc.culture.african said that "blak" was the
- >proper Afrocentric spelling.
-
- As a regular reader of the soc.culture.african, and as a Black (with a "c")
- man, I haven't seen this anywhere. There is one former poster who used the
- spelling, but he, by no means is the authority on Afrocentric spellings or
- what nots. The same person spelled "America" as "Amerikkka", does that mean
- that the rest of you are going to follow that lead also. I think I speak for
- a lot of people on the network by saying that we prefer the typical spelling
- of the word "Black" and not something that someone calls "Afrocentric"!
- Kevin
-