here ya go… ebonics for ya..
by doreen peri
Posted to Utterances on 2002-11-07 16:54:00
Parent message is 319202
*smile* – hey listen, one of the reasons Lenny Bruce was so funny was because he could hit a nerve and show people how ridiculous prejudice is… !!
if we can’t laugh at clearly blatant human biases
and the ignorance of prejudiced people,
we don’t have much of a sense of humor,
do we?
sad Truths are hard to swallow sometimes.
humor is a tricky thing….
we laugh at human frailty and human mistakes..
this is the way we can move forward to realize
how we can change things… Lenny Bruce’s sarcasm
and wit did a lot to change things
i know Lenny Bruce didn’t apologize for his laughter…..
it was a social statement
silly stuff here..!! silly!! lol
http://www.psyclops.com/translator/
here’s the translation….
go ahead! laugh! it’s ok!
Lenny Bruce was right!
Words are VERY powerful.
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Dis be a famous quote from Lenny Bruce Ah would like yo’ opinions on n’ shit. Dis be not ma opinion necessarily so please do not jump on me ‘n call me racist, know what I’m sayin’? Ah be simply puttin’ da quote up here to gatha opinions about what Lenny Bruce wuz saying, know what I’m sayin’? Since dis be a literary website, Ah would like to know yo’ views on da powa of WORDS.
Heres da quote:
“ARE THEIR ANY NIGGERS HERE TONIGHT? Oh, ma god, did yo’ ass hear what tha dude said? Are there any niggers here tonight? Be dat rank! Be dat cruel! Be dat a cheap way to get laughs? Well, Ah think Ah see a nigga at da bar talkin’ to two guinea owners ‘n next to them….Now why has Ah done this? Be dat shit only fo shock value?
Well, if all da niggers started callin’ each otha nigger, not only among themselves, which they do anyway, but among others, man. If President Kennedy gots on television ‘n said:’I’m considerin’ appointin’ two or three of da top niggers in da country to ma cabinet’-if dat shit wuz nothin’ but nigger, nigger, nigger- in six months nigga wouldn’t mean any ‘mo than good
night, god bless you…-when dat beautiful day comes, you’ll neva see anotha nigga kid come home from school cryin’ because some motherfucka called tha dude’s ass a nigger.”
—Lenny Bruce
