CP Time

[Wilson Gray]

On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:

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>  From the comic strip Boondocks:
> http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2004/11/02/
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> Huey:  I dreamt I talked to God last night . . .
> Huey:  He said, Don't worry about the election 'cause everything would
> work
> itself out soon.
> Huey:  Of course, to God, "Soon" could be, like, 50 million years.
> Caesar:  Yeah, He's been on C.P. time lately.
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> I've seen/heard "C.P. Time" as "Colored People Time", but never in
> such a
> mainstream form.
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Aaron probably recked without the ADS, figuring that "the other group"
would be too lame and unhip to have any idea what the reference was.
Or, perhaps, he just didn't care, since he uses a lot of in-group
references in his work. If this kind of thing interests you(-all),
you(-all) may want to watch Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central. He's
the sketch-comedy version of Richard Pryor, so to speak. Or as it were.

FWIW, I know this only as "colored people's time," with the possessive
"s" pronounced, since I've heard it used only by  boojies as a down
(sic) of the underclass types who, with their lack of couth, their rap
music, and their blink-blink (sic) persist in interfering with the
upward progress of the Talented Tenth. Bill - or, rather, William -
Cosby, EdD, you know what I'm saying.

-Wilson Gray