Posted by
dovehawk on Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:18:29 PM
DEAR OBAMA,
Yo! What's this, my brother, when you go into "the 'hood" to talk? I ask, my brother, what is the dialect and twang that suddenly lays down upon your words?
Yo! Wasn't yo' mama a white lady? Is it from her you learned this special sudden twang? Is it called the "sudden twang" or somethin'?
Yo! Maybe yo' daddy, who I thought was from an African nation (not the U.S. south), learned the special twang and taught it to you.
Perhaps, yo' stepdaddy, who was Indonesian (if I'm not mistaken) knew how to talk a bit of the jive, my brother. I just can't feature that though.
So, yo, how is it you DON'T talk with sudden twang and humph-jive inflection the rest of the time? How come it lays down on ya' only when you're talking to a group of Black folks in their southern-town churches? I'ze hopin' they're not that gullible.
May be, you think it serves Hillary pretty good, like when she say, "I don't feel no ways 'tared'!!" Is that why you talk that jive twang and humph?
How you say "Phony Baloney" in dat dere jive twang? I'ze jus' curious.
Yo'z truly,
A Voter