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- From: barnhart@ddsw1.mcs.com (Mr. Aaron Barnhart)
- Subject: In defense of Christopher Gray (was Re: Parks attempts to respond and doesn't!!!!
- Message-ID: <C06t2J.82D@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:08:42 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- References: <BzoKAx.5zI@agora.rain.com> <92358.071033KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu> <Bzvz90.6yy@agora.rain.com>
- Organization: Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
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- robart@agora.rain.com (Joe Bob) wrote:
- :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.
-
-
- Now *there's* the pot calling the kettle BLAK.
-
- My friend and fellow scaa poster Michael J. Carpenter assures me that
- Chris Gray graduated and was probably moving to Chicago. When he
- resurfaces, I hope he gets an account here (on ddsw1) or a similar
- Chicago-area system, so he can set yall straight.
-
- I am stupified by the hoot and holler over one man's (and one young
- woman's) choice of spelling. If diversity is about anything, at the
- very *least* it's about these relatively piddling things.
-
- Aaron
-