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[which_chick]

I have finished watching Boys of Baraka which I was told to do by my mother. While I cannot make my mother (or, if I were an innercity youth as in the movie, my muvver) watch anything I think SHE needs to see, she is still able to compel me to watch things that she thinks would be improving. There is no parity on that front, I gotta say. Anyway, I watched the movie and can field questions on it, should there be a quiz. I don't have a whole lot to add about the movie except that I was amused as hell that the boyz from da hood, dey spoke Bawlmur so fickly dat, wurd, in deh movie, dey be subtitlin' wif words-n-shit all unnerneaf becuz ain no way nobody gwan unnerstand de boyz uhvverwise.

Also: Mail me Charlotte's address and I'll send that (and the environment movie) out on Monday.

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On a related note, see the NYT editorial on articulate as it applies to black people: here (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/weekinreview/04clemetson.html?em&ex=1170738000&en=1d04fa6a8e1b9880&ei=5087%0A).

Every time you want to use the word articulate to describe a black person, remember that what you're REALLY saying is sounds white. Do you really want to be heard saying that?