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Subject: <span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2013.12.01 (03) [EN]</span><br><br><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px">It’s about <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">10:30</span></span> at night here in Arizona, USA, and I just saw this. I have heard the phrase. I googled it but found nothing and looked in Juba To Jive but didn’t find it. I’ll look more <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">tomorrow</span></span>, but I asked my wife, who was raised in a very traditional Black culture in East Texas and here in Arizona. She’s heard it but not so much from young people I offered her two interpretations and she said, “Both”. No help there. So here are mine:</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px">one is an overt reference to being Black, something like “Since I am Black, I know I’ll have to put up with this sh*t, so.....” The other is just a saying, a way of stressing that it’s going to be forever since I have always been Black and always will be Black. In the U.S. Blacks are acutely aware of being Black and it is something they are reminded of constantly by the reactions of Whites. My wife and I will have been married 50 years next June and, as a White person, I’ve seen all the changes in our society but the racism is still alive and well. I tend toward the latter view, that it’s just a saying similar to many among Black people that stress their color. It is life-determining despite the uplifting “you can be anything you want” sermons.</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px">If I find anything concrete, I’ll post it.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px">Pat Barrett</div></div><div title="Page 22"><br></div></div></div></font></font><div align="center" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0pt">
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