ain't = don't

[Wilson Gray]

Colored folk ain't get credit for nothin'! ;-(

-Wilson

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is surprisingly early and evidently not BEV:
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> 1918 Alter Brody _A Family Album and Other Poems_  (N.Y.: Huebsch) 88: They
> ain't know nothin' - nothin' about me leastways,/ Give me some dope for my
> nerves!
> JL
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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