MnSpring
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Many times I have heard, people, say the work, "Axe”. As in: “ I is gonna Axe dat person ”.
I don’t think, that person wants to hit some with a sharp object. I believe that person wants to ask a question, of another person. Just as I believe the words, (in the above statement): “dat”, means, “that’. And, “is”, means, "am”. And, "AXE", is, 'Ask'
The words: “Till Killer Cops”, with a dialect, accent, just plain mispronouncing, or running words together, sound like: “kill a cop”. The key to looking further, is the end, (of that chant), the words, “are in cell blocks”.
Now, most all of us, have some, ’thing/words’, that we say, which defined where we are from, or how we were brought up.
Like me: ‘Ya Know’, ‘Ya Bet Cha’. (The movie Fargo, those people, REALLY do, talk that way) Or if you are from, a Country North of here, the word, ‘yep’ or ‘a’. Or from the N/E, ‘Ah Yep’. Or down south, ‘Ya All’.
And in those times, that, ‘local’, words are used. The meaning, is quickly grasped.
However, in this case, (Ferguson). Such words, are being broadcast to a international audience. Their may be a lot of people, who do Not, ‘grasp’ what they mean. One wonders. WHY, are they being said? Is it just, not thinking, what everyone else hears? Is it for, just, the local people, to pick up on the chant? Or is it to, ‘purposely’, mislead people into thinking, something else was said?
Now the news station, who cut off the words: ‘are in cell blocks’. Gee, they were the First One to do that ? Or the Only one, (that ever has, or ever will) highlight a, ‘political’, position, by cutting off the rest of a chant?
If a group of people, have a belief, and a cause. One would think, that, the better, they communicate that cause. the more success they will have.
BUT. By, Rioting, Looting, Disrupting, just for the sake of disrupting. And chanting, in a, dialect, that few other people understand. Or can be very easily misunderstood. Just serves to, ‘reinforce’, a, Stereotype Attitude! And that, group of people, are doing, that, VERY well !
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