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Old 08-19-2005, 11:38 PM   #58 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sikoholickkouboi
Like I didn't know that. Most kids growing up now didn't go through that (a few gens ago) and I don't see them jumping at the bits to relearn their "old" ancestrial language. Why? Because the past was the past, f*cked as it may have been, and they grew up with this one. No ****, what you mentioned was wrong. I can't help the unfortunate acts of the past, but this is now. I can only concentrate about now. Look, I said I was gon drop this anyways, unless YOU got something else to add.
The point of my comment was to show that African Americans were Forcibly put into a situation where learning english was vital to there survival, so it is not an apt comparison.
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