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>Wait a minute. This seems to imply that a person in America can escape
>much of the stigma of blackness by (quoting Ford) "not saying 'y'all' in
>his normal discourse." But Ford is always standing up for the principle
>that race -- race qua race, not as a mere correlate of something else,
>like culture or class -- still matters, that it hasn't been
>"transcended." I think there's a deep contradiction here.
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>Seth
Ford didn't write that, male cauc Paul Street did. Part of what Street is saying is that *Obama* apparently thinks you can escape the stigma since he said y'all in Selma and doesn't elsewhere.