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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat was kind of weird on the Rachel Maddow show
"Axe not" I get it was about the budget and all but it's also how some people make fun of
how black people say the word 'ask'.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)He grew up in NYC, lower East Side.
Lex
(34,108 posts)not just black folks!
olddots
(10,237 posts)and replaced them with cheaper ones........
Bye bye MSNBC
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)'some' people would be racists.
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)...my point.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)She had him on the ropes about cutting SSI. She is right about what needs to be done, and he keeps going back to "fixing it" to end the waste bullshit.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)I don't give a shit how a black person or Tony from Queens says "ask," as "axe."
The point is that the third rail is on us.
It's not Democrat vs Republican. It's the 1 percent versus all of the rest of us and they are winning.
Jeez.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)it was clearly a reference to Chaucer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters
"I axe, why the fyfte man Was nought housband to the Samaritan?" (Wife of Bath's Prologue, 1386.)
olddots
(10,237 posts)I think its time to say good bye to MSNBC ----