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Re: The Don't List for Black Folks
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Originally posted by Professor
The Don't List for Black Folks
6. DON'T Call your family gathering a picnic. You got the email; you
know where the word came from. Besides, if you haven't been picked by now, it ain't gonna happen at your family reunion.
18. DON'T Pass on ridiculous emails and swear up and down that they are
true. Your cousin did not see Tommy Hilfiger on Oprah dissing black
folks, Proctor and Gamble is not owned by Satan, no one is going to
steal
your kidney if you visit New Mexico, and Bill Gates is not going to give
you
jack.
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FUNNY how these two things are in the SAME EMAIL. Where does the author think that whole hype about the word "picnic" came from?
THIS IS JUST NOT TRUE
Picnic comes from a FRENCH TERM (pique-nique, and no nique is not french for n*****) and has nothing to do with the south- it's been in the English vocabulary since THe Norman Invasion, lol.
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