Lock a white guy [the saying goes] in a in a room full of, errrmm, black fellows, and in a week he'll come out 'talkin' like one'. Thomas Merton wrote once : he heard a group of black collage students in a library talking away like they were white students. I can't remember exactly how Br. Thomas put it, but it basically amounted : SMH. So, why is it when Blacks talk like Whites they're Uncle Toms, but when Whites sing like Blacks they're Rock Stars. Oh and by the way those back-up singers (for the dude singing Black Coffee) expressions weren't ones of admiration I'd say more like they may have thought, someone needs to bitch-slap that boy, IMHO.
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