
Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin' Salty in The O
Slate Debates
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Can a White Woman Really Tell the Stories of Black Women Using Old Schooly Bonnets?
Ebonic has become a shorthand, so it's a way to kind of conjure an image of a particular way of speaking quickly. As a writer, you know, you use the tools that you have to convey what yo in to talk about. I grew up part of the time in new york and part of thetime in atlanta. And i've also been told all my life i sound like a white girl, whatever that is. But having said that, mean, i think about meno bami were the same generation, same age group,. A lot of middle class, upper middle educated, professional black folks do what he does. So he has dard way
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