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Originally Posted by fantASTic
To shed as much light as a corn-fed white girl can on the 'k' spelling thing...
In my sociology class, we read the biography of Assata Shakur. She used that commonly, for a lot of things [kourt for court, afrikan, etc]. What we were informed is that the use of the k indicates a racism or biased system. For example: she uses kourt instead of court to denote the system in which she was tried, because it was racially slanted against her. Apparently the k is used because of the KKK.
In the same light, an "afrikan" according to Assata is a black person who has "sold out" to the white-centered society.
I have no idea if there are other meanings or whatever, so please don't jump down my throat if I'm wrong!
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Okay--this is Assata Shakur's take on it. She's hardly the foremost authority on such things.
And I'm humored that you all were assigned her biography for your soc class.