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Biko Agozino

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Gloria Emeagwali

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“F*** the law “ can work as well.

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Biko Agozino

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Aug 9, 2019, 2:40:21 PM8/9/19
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I know, the Hip Hop generation is very colorful with language. But I also notice the hypocrisy of locking up babies at the border, locking up journalists, bombing wedding parties, starving whole populations, deploying nuclear weapons, partying with underage girls, and shooting dead unarmed innocent people while Big Brother squirms that the F word is a bad word. Tosh defied such prudery with a whole song to women's sanitary towels, Oh Bomboclaat!

Well, what a bad word, bambila bad word. But no be me talk am.

I too squirm over the N word and wish that the lyricists would replace it with the rhyming, My Teacher this, My Thinker that.

Biko

Gloria Emeagwali

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Aug 10, 2019, 10:33:53 AM8/10/19
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Sun Ra the musician took another approach." If you are not mad with the world
you can't join my Arquestra," he probably  said. He then  put on his space hat,   travelled
to Saturn in his intergalactic musical ship, and had "A fireside chat  with Lucifer."
Not a bad rendition.

That women's sanitary towels would be turned into a " cuss" word has a
misogynistic ring, no doubt.

GE


On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 2:40:21 PM UTC-4, Biko Agozino wrote:
I know, the Hip Hop generation is very colorful with language. But I also notice the hypocrisy of locking up babies at the border, locking up journalists, bombing wedding parties, starving whole populations, deploying nuclear weapons, partying with underage girls, and shooting dead unarmed innocent people while Big Brother squirms that the F word is a bad word. Tosh defied such prudery with a whole song to women's sanitary towels, Oh Bomboclaat!

Well, what a bad word, bambila bad word. But no be me talk am.

I too squirm over the N word and wish that the lyricists would replace it with the rhyming, My Teacher this, My Thinker that.

Biko

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“F*** the law “ can work as well.

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Biko Agozino

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Aug 10, 2019, 11:19:07 AM8/10/19
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Why Sun Ra has to go all the way to Saturn to chat with Satan when it have plenty people in the party of Satan running around the earth trying to tief the people heart and leave many heartless? He said you broke his heart but he has no heart to break, said Dylan.

You are right, sanitary towels are associated with a holy period in Igbo society. It ent a curse word, hence the ode from Tosh.

Biko

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Sun Ra the musician took another approach." If you are not mad with the world
you can't join my Arquestra," he probably  said. He then  put on his space hat,   travelled
to Saturn in his intergalactic musical ship, and had "A fireside chat  with Lucifer."
Not a bad rendition.

That women's sanitary towels would be turned into a " cuss" word has a
misogynistic ring, no doubt.

GE


On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 2:40:21 PM UTC-4, Biko Agozino wrote:
I know, the Hip Hop generation is very colorful with language. But I also notice the hypocrisy of locking up babies at the border, locking up journalists, bombing wedding parties, starving whole populations, deploying nuclear weapons, partying with underage girls, and shooting dead unarmed innocent people while Big Brother squirms that the F word is a bad word. Tosh defied such prudery with a whole song to women's sanitary towels, Oh Bomboclaat!

Well, what a bad word, bambila bad word. But no be me talk am.

I too squirm over the N word and wish that the lyricists would replace it with the rhyming, My Teacher this, My Thinker that.

Biko

On Friday, 9 August 2019, 12:56:08 GMT-4, Gloria Emeagwali <gloria....@gmail.com> wrote:


“F*** the law “ can work as well.

Sent from my iPhone

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