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...think there's a bit of both. What people don't realize is for someone to be a CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company--s___, in the 'hood, we celebrate! Hey, my friend Stan--he's black! Oh, my! Not out of sayin' black people can't do it, but they never had the position before! So it's a celebration, a sort of coming out for a culture. But it's gotten a little too much because then you have people saying he got the position because he's black. We have to get back to the person. This...
...somebody done peeped dere hole card," said the Kingfish. "The Clinton Administration said no way dey would fund a bilingual Ebonics program, and Maya Angelou and Jesse Jackson got all bent out of shape too. So the school board issued a statement sayin' dey wasn't settin' up a bilingual program, jist trying to he'p the kids learn standard English. But den dey puts in a paragirraffe dat convinced me dat the school board needs some he'p with its own English." He read, "'In the clause African Language Systems are genetically based and not a dialect of English...
...added, tearing into a ripsaw version of Johnny 99, about an unemployed factory worker who shoots a hotel night clerk: "Now judge I got debts no honest man could pay/ The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they/ was takin' my house away/ Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man/ But it was more 'n all this that put the gun in/ my hand...
...kids've got out of hand,/ But they must've spiked the sodas at the popcorn stand/ Because this movie has the innocence of bygone years,/ Like the films of Fred (Rock Around the Clock) F. Sears./ I mean they even got a deacon who berates the boys/ By sayin' "That's not music--just screamin' an' noise."/ And when Blair and Sheila E. meet romantic-like, Jack,/ You can hear the Mantovani sugar up the sound track./ Like I say, this ain't art like you find in the Louvre,/ But if you wanna go deaf you oughta rush...
...those toys around. Someone's going to fool with them sooner or later. Look at Hiroshima. The Bomb was already used once. Things are building all the time. The Middle East, Central America. I listen to the radio a lot when I drive my tractor, and they were just sayin' the other day that there was--what was the name of that country? Pakistan--they were sayin' that Pakistan might get the Bomb. So nobody's safe. No, I don't mind the missiles on my land. If they go off, it'll probably happen at night. I'll never...