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- From: robart@agora.rain.com (Joe Bob)
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination,soc.culture.african.american,soc.culture.african
- Subject: Re: Parks attempts to respond and doesn't!!!!
- Message-ID: <Bzvz90.6yy@agora.rain.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 21:48:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: agora.Bzvz90.6yy
- References: <92350.073025KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu> <BzoKAx.5zI@agora.rain.com> <92358.071033KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- In article <92358.071033KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu> KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >In article <BzoKAx.5zI@agora.rain.com>, robart@agora.rain.com (Joe Bob) says:
- >>>>>Would you PLEASE explain why you insist on spelling "black" as "blak"?
- >>
- >> 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"!
-
-
- Are you talking about Kristofer Gray at Mississippi State? He doesn't
- seem to be around anymore. I doubt if he graduated though, since he
- seemed to be really ignorant.
-