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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span name="Pat Barrett" class="" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px">Pat Barrett</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net">pbarrett@cox.net</a>></span></p>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in"></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2013.12.02 (02) [EN]</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></p><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16.363636016845703px">Two more people I asked this of: one, my wife’s brother and the other, his wife, from a Creole family from Louisiana via Houston. My brother-in-law went with the “I know I’m Black and will have to always be watchful and careful” and his wife with “this will last as long as I’m Black, which is forever”.</div>

<div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16.363636016845703px">Pat Barrett</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></p></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">

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<font color="#351c75"><span style="font-size:11.818181991577148px">From: </span><span name="Pat Barrett" style="font-size:12px">Pat Barrett</span><span style="font-size:11.818181991577148px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11.818181991577148px;white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net" target="_blank">pbarrett@cox.net</a>></span></font></p>

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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#351c75"><span style="font-size:11.818181991577148px">Subject: </span><span style="font-size:11.818181991577148px;white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2013.12.01 (03) [EN]</span></font></p>

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<div style="overflow:hidden"><div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:calibri"><font color="#351c75">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:</font></div>

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<div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:calibri"><font color="#351c75">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.</font></div>

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<div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:calibri"><font color="#351c75">If I find anything concrete, I’ll post it.</font></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium;margin-left:30px">

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