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- From: cbe@unlinfo.unl.edu (cbe)
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- Subject: Re: Marky Mark and Calvin Klein (was Re: Scott Masden)
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 07:38:38 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- References: <1992Nov15.040728.10571@spdcc.com> <69575@cup.portal.com> <thaaang.721931083@cwis> <1992Nov16.191434.25299@spdcc.com>
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- dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
-
- >In article <thaaang.721931083@cwis> thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance) writes:
- >>>>body. This what-his-name is simply a media creation exploiting a
- >>>>legitimate art for by co-opting it for the white masses, or in other
- >>>>words, doing just what he used to do as a member of NKOTB. I mean, why
- >>>>isn't he treated with the same dismissiveness as Vanilla Ice was? I
- >>
- >>This is disturbing. Is 'White rapper' an oxymoron?
-
- >Close to it. Let's just say that someone who pretends to be a rapper
- >and is white has a few more credentials to prove before being taken
- >seriously. This guy is just from the same hit engine as NKOTB (don't
- >give me this crap about being unaffiliated--he's the brother of one of
- >them, and I say that as someone born and bred in Dorchester, home of
- >Steve Dyer, Donna Summer, _New Edition_, Marky Mark and NKOTB.)
-
- >>(and NKOTB
- >>was hardly 'exploiting a black art' anyway, unless the boundaries
- >>for 'black territory' encompassed a lot more than I'd thought...)
-
- >Well, it's probably seems that way in Nebraska. NKOTB was simply
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Gawsh Mistofer Dyer, Johhny D an' meself jes ain't possible as
- sofitikated as youse 'cause we'uns lives in these hear sticks. An' as
- allun people no, ain't know blacks or any of there kultur hear or nutin'
- else but corn 'n ' beans. I tink Johnny D red & sawed a buk once tho. An'
- heck, I war so cornfused livin' a year in Londumb an' Gherminy thet I
- culdn't seem to git any of that thar sofitikation but Johnny, him
- have more 'cause he lives in a really, really big town. But I shore
- do 'pologize for Johnny D fur bein' silly an' tinkin' he culd figger
- out sumpin or larn sumpin 'cause he be livin' in the boonies.
-
-
- Colburn Eigen H|u> = E|u>
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