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                17 Dec
                
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                11:17 p.m.
            
        On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
By the way, both Jesse Jackson and famed poetess Maya Angelou have denounced the Oakland School Board's adoption of "Ebonics" as shameful and a travesty. Jackson said black children should not be encouraged to speak "garbage."
Isn't that what Farrakan (sp?) has been saying from the start of his political career? I thaught he was the Man nowadays (but I don't live in the US and could have gotten it backwards). Asgaard