"kilikini" > wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ...
> > Kevin S. Wilson > wrote:
> > > On 16 Sep 2005 22:46:42 GMT, wrote:
> > >
> > > >Are you calling me 'Bubba'? Is that meant as some kind of racial
> > > >slur?
> > >
> > > DYOFHW.
> > >
> > > > You know nothing of my true color or colors, you pathetic excuse
> > > > for an intellectual and moral giant. "Niggah, ef'n yo is talkin'
> > > > tuh me, Ah ain' liss'nin'."

That's actually a quote from C. Himes in Black on Black, 1937.
> > >
> > > Keep digging that hole, Bubba.
> >
> > Yassuh,Marsa. I's diggin'! N' when I gets it deep enuff, I's gonna
> > stick yo in it wif jes' yo head stickin' out 'n den we's gonna play
> > bowlin'! Yu'd bes' be reddy ta shake yo moneymaka, honky mofo!
> >
Ten years of living and playing with Black Folk had more value than just
this. My black daughter was laughing like Hell at Kevie and the thread.
>
> Nick, it's funny. Normally I'd have to read what you wrote kind of
> slowly to sound it out, but I've been addicted to Alex Haley's book,
> Roots, for the past week and your sentences just flew off my monitor.
> Did you ever read Roots? It is a wonderful story; extremely well written
> - although I've heard that it's not all that factual. I don't know or
> care, it's a wonderful read.
>
Saw the movie (on TV?), never read the book.

I'm planning to kf Kevvie again today. "It was great fun, but it was just
one . . . of those things!"

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