NODE 09f42fe9RE: The Ebonic Plague
James Bugden <70023.3247@compuserve.com>Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:50:39 -0800 (PST)
blancw@cnw.com wrote:
>From: Timothy C. May
>
>Democracy has run amok in this country. There is no hope for reforming
>at the ballot box, as democracy only makes things worse. Only a crypto
>reign of terror can purge this land of the scum.
>......................................................
>
>Just how would this take shape in "real life" - what would constitute this
>reign of terror; how do you envision such an event in action?
>
>And which are the scum who would be purged?
>
>Blanc
Scum - you know - it's like crap - it's the stuff that floats to the top.
Or is that the cream?
Sucks Syntax!
Anarchy Rules!
Merry Christmas!
James
jbugden@alis.com
"pride and selfishness, when combined with mental power, never want for a theory
to justify them-and when men oppress their fellow-men, the oppressor ever finds,
in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression."
Frederick Douglass, 1854
NODE 8c99a2c0Re: The Ebonic Plague
Carl Johnson <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>Sun, 22 Dec 1996 23:56:41 -0800 (PST)
James Bugden wrote:
> Scum - you know - it's like crap - it's the stuff that floats to the top.
> Or is that the cream?
Life is like a bowl of chili. If you don't stir it every now and again,
all of the scum rises to the top.
(From the kitchen wall at Xalapeno Charlie's, Austin, TX, circa 1982)