Heard on The Judges: an anomalous claim

Doug Harris cats22 at STNY.RR.COM
Thu Dec 4 00:28:19 UTC 2008


Whack DAT bro wit yo hoe!
dh

 Wilson Gray wrtoe:
Subject: Heard on The Judges: an anomalous claim


>Mid-thirty-ish, white male speaker:

>"Your honor, _we_ have this saying, 'bros before hos.'"

>What do you mean, _we_, white man?!!! And it ain't no "before,"
>neither! It's "b'fo'"!
>Yet another sordid example of the appropriation of black culture by The Man!
>Sigh! What can you do? ;-)
>-Wilson

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