[Ads-l] More Facebook: "African ancestored people"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 21 20:52:02 UTC 2015


Shouldn't that be,

"*Africanly*-ancestored people"?

Or, perhaps better, in view of the social history of the United States,

"Africanishly-ancestored people."

Youneverknow.

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