Fw: DEA wants to hire Ebonics translators (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

Irregardless. I ain't eatin' no cheese on nobody. Besides, I hate the
DEA, though I know of it only from random cop operas.

The naked racism of the overwhelming majority of reader comments is
sickening, but, sadly, not surprising or unexpected. Even the comments
by Wulfrafn and Baugh seem ass-backward, feeding, as they do, right
into racist commentary. Instead of attacking racism, they attempt to
defend its victims. The result is that it shows that the victims
*need* to be defended - K'moan, yawl! Gi' uh bruvva a break! - leading
to "Vae victis" all over again.

--
-Wilson
–––
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.
–Mark Twain


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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