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   Aidan Kehoe to All   
   Re: Bebe Moore Campbell died (27/11/2006   
   28 Nov 24 16:08:36   
   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an t-ochtú lá is fiche de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > American author, journalist and teacher.   
    > Age 56. Brain cancer.   
    >   
    > "The interviewer asks if she can be intimate with anyone who can't speak   
   Black   
    > English:   
    >   
    > No. I can't. And the way I know is that with the very few white people whom   
   I   
    > have really good feelings for I don't turn the censor on. When I let my hair   
    > down that much, then I trust you and I accept you. I know you know I know   
    > what's grammatical."   
      
   Odd way to phrase this, as if white people never struggle with standard   
   English.   
      
    > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebe_Moore_Campbell   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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