Opinion | Black English Doesn't Have to Be Just for Black People - The New York Times - 0 views
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, the question is why a white guy like Rife is doing that, instead of switching into a more vanilla version of colloquial white English.
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Black English, for him, as for so many Black people, is a comfort zone, where it all gets real.
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It was peculiar for a white person to process Black English that way, to the point of making personal use of it, until roughly the late 1990s. But things have changed.
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