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[Wilson Gray]

http://daily.jstor.org/the-deafening-echoes-of-marked-language/?cid=eml_j_jstordaily_dailylist_06162016

http://goo.gl/VVcZqC

Or as Linda Belcher, wife of Bob Belcher, proprietor of Bob’s Burgers, has
just rhetorically asked,

“What up, my knitter?”

Trayvon of Black Jesus put it better  ;

“What up, my N-word?"

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-Wilson
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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.
-Mark Twain

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