LL-L "Idiomatica" 2013.12.27 (01) [EN]

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From: Pat Barrett <pbarrett at cox.net>

Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2013.12.02 (02) [EN]


Two more people I asked this of: one, my wife’s brother and the other, his
wife, from a Creole family from Louisiana via Houston. My brother-in-law
went with the “I know I’m Black and will have to always be watchful and
careful” and his wife with “this will last as long as I’m Black, which is
forever”.
Pat Barrett


 From: Pat Barrett <pbarrett at cox.net>

Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2013.12.01 (03) [EN]


It’s about 10:30 at night here in Arizona, USA, and I just saw this. I have
heard the phrase. I googled it but found nothing and looked in Juba To Jive
but didn’t find it. I’ll look more tomorrow, but I asked my wife, who was
raised in a very traditional Black culture in East Texas and here in
Arizona. She’s heard it but not so much from young people I offered her two
interpretations and she said, “Both”. No help there. So here are mine:
 one is an overt reference to being Black, something like “Since I am
Black, I know I’ll have to put up with this sh*t, so.....” The other is
just a saying, a way of stressing that it’s going to be forever since I
have always been Black and always will be Black. In the U.S. Blacks are
acutely aware of being Black and it is something they are reminded of
constantly by the reactions of Whites. My wife and I will have been married
50 years next June and, as a White person, I’ve seen all the changes in our
society but the racism is still alive and well. I tend toward the latter
view, that it’s just a saying similar to many among Black people that
stress their color. It is life-determining despite the uplifting “you can
be anything you want” sermons.
 If I find anything concrete, I’ll post it.
Pat Barrett


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