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Quibbling about the "blackness" of Obama's speech patterns

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Slave owners in the attic. "Ta-Nehisi Coates links, and offers a minor quibble to, a piece by black linguist John McWhorter on 'how Obama and Steele use the cadence and jargon of black English.' McWhorter argues that Steele's clumsy use of outdated hiphop jargon is exactly what you'd expect of him."


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