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Biko Agozino

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Sep 2, 2020, 1:51:43 PM9/2/20
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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Sep 2, 2020, 3:47:58 PM9/2/20
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 Biko, as I said before, you should have at least used quotation marks for the f word.




Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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Biko Agozino

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Sep 2, 2020, 8:39:49 PM9/2/20
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No be me talk am o, na the youth them talk am. 

But you are right about the 'trigger word', I think that Facebook just removed that post without reading it and without asking me, Someone must have complained about the word. It is a strange world where people embrace killers as their supporters but fret about a cuss word popular in the culture.

Biko

Michael Afolayan

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Sep 3, 2020, 7:25:09 AM9/3/20
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Biko -

If you were a poet, a comedian, or even 45, you could get away with such 4-letter word under the guise of "poetic license", but an academic? Even some of your students would be offended. Yep, I fully concur with Gloria; you could have put the trigger word in quote or by the political correctness designation of using its initial "F..." only. However, your audacity may actually get the attention you are seeking for the book.

Good luck and congratulations on the work.

MOA





Biko Agozino

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Sep 3, 2020, 5:08:57 PM9/3/20
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Thanks MOA, I wonder what took FB so long to notice that I do not give a piece of flying snow to their censorship that is generated by racist algorithms. I am in good company with all those banned musicians that Falola has been excavating. Yes, I am actually a poet too and a musician to booth. FB can kiss my black donkey and I will still not give a shit. If the law supports genocide, slavery and colonialism, then Fuck The Law.

Biko

Gloria Emeagwali

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Sep 3, 2020, 5:26:27 PM9/3/20
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Some of that snow flew to Connecticut, but snow has never been scarce up here. Come December, and  snow would be flying  around in all directions,  eventually making its evolution to slippery mud and sludge.

Now if we stretch your statement a bit we would say that all Departments that teach law and law related courses  should also suffer the same fate.

GE



Biko Agozino

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Sep 3, 2020, 6:06:18 PM9/3/20
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No, no, no, there are brave instructors out there flipping the middle finger salute. But, as the youth will say on the streets, Fuck the Nazis. And if there are people who are down with the Nazis and are offended, then Fuck them too.

Biko

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