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Trying to conceal my amazement, I asked what Buckwheat thought of Ebonics. "In my opinion," he replied, "the entire controversy could have been avoided easily if the Oakland school board knew how to speak better English. They had the right idea, after all. It makes perfect sense to help teachers understand that youngsters from underclass neighborhoods speak differently from other Americans and that their distinctive speech patterns don't mean the kids are stupid." He continued, "In fact, school systems in California and other states have been using this idea since the 1970s, when some scholars concluded that Black English...
...essential and most rare: the search for God. When he determined to dedicate himself to the Swami, he made it plausible by remembering that he "hated anything which sounded like 'religion'" and "had always regarded Vedanta philosophy, or yoga, as the ultimate in mystery-mongering nonsense." Here is the perfect skeptic's guide to faith, in which even the most vaporous of concepts is rendered with a brilliant everyday lucidity ("The Ego...is like a man who will stand right in front of you at a horse race...
...group of teenagers in mid-seventies Seattle as they fall victim to a mysterious sexually transmitted disease known as “the Bug.” The origins of the disease are never revealed, but that omission is unimportant amidst the grotesque developments and explicit violence presented in perfect detail. As Burns has remarked, “It was extremely fucking labor-intensive...
However the somewhat confounding rebirth of snobbery makes perfect sense if one remembers that, for all of our protestations to the contrary, Harvard students are just people. Normal people. Granted, we may be very smart and some of us might be hard working, but, fundamentally, we are not at all different from those we often mock and disparage. That this needs to even be stated is evidence of how bad things have become, but let us remember that people are, more often than not, selfish, narrow-minded, and prejudiced. Thus we see Harvard students writing that athletes as a whole...