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How do I write dialogue for black characters?
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How do I write dialogue for black characters?
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You write them as being raised by white middle class parents in a middle class town, so the dialogue is the exact same as everyone else.
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>>7392125
'Like dis, nigga.' Watermelondrea said. 'You be tryna do some blackface shit, mmm not around here, nigga.'

Anon trembled and mumbled.
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it depends if he is ghetto or a fine negro gentleman
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>>7392125
Whatever works for your story. Read more literature and you can see how other authors did it.
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You don't write characters you are uncomfortable with.
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like a white person except misspell some words and add "nigga" in once every couple sentences
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>writing black characters
next you'll want to write about women
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>>7392180
Good books only have men characters. This is why all romance novels are shit except gay romance.
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Smash ypur head on tje keyboard and add 'oo' between consonants every so often
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OP here, I'm writing this for my c.uckoldry novel. I'm really into black dick and love watching porn on blacked.com with my other redpilled friends so I'm getting into writing. If you have some more suggestions, I appreciate it.
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Ever see a black person walking around in public with one of those Bluetooth headsets on? Words are coming out of their mouth, but somehow they say nothing.
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is this neo /lit/?

a bunch of cousin-fucking gun-toting trump-voting pickup truck-driving meth-smoking rat-tail-wearing country music-listening sovereign citizen redpill shilling inbred carnival employee rednecks?
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>>7392206
What do you expect from /pol/tards?
>>7392199
Exactly what I expected of you.
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>>7392206
I'll take them over triggered Hitler-youthed bores with all the "right" opinions. You people put me to sleep instantly.
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>>7392206
The Counterforce (natch)

Deal with it.
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>>7392125
Wardine say her momma aint treat her right. Reginald he come round to my blacktop at my building where me and Delores Epps jump double dutch and he say, Clenette, Wardine be down at my crib cry say her momma aint treat her right, and I go on with Reginald to his building where he live at, and Wardine be sit deep back in a closet in Reginald crib, and she be cry.
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>>7392250
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>>7392252
What the fuck?
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>>7392125
Refer to Kekleberry Finn for some wonderful negto dialogue
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>>7392258
This is spam.
>>>/b/
>>>/s4s/
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>>7392272
No, this is directly relevant to the topic

Are your feelings hurt?
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>>7392274
No. It's spam. Refer to GR3.
>indecipherable text
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>>7392255
Black Colored Person of Color African Afro Basketball American Man feels up woman as she becomes giant blueberry.

She dies as a result of becoming blueberry.

He lusts and has sex with her remains.

He gets hungry after sex.

He eats the leftover blueberry woman.

The act of satisfying hunger is conflated with violent rape.

He is now satiated (in both ways) and becomes like a blueberry himself after consuming her essence.

It's a common arc in street lit.
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>>7392278
This topic is about indecipherable text
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>>7392278
OP asked for what is obviously going to include examples of 'indecipherable' dialogue, yo.
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>>7392258
>U SAYING WE GON BE
>SOM FINNA
>SUUUUU SIIIIIIIII SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I don't get it.
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>>7392281
What the fuck?

>>7392283
No. It's about writing black dialogue for the OP's c-uckoldry novel. He got the suggestion to read more works with black characters, which is the best one in this thread.
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>>7392125
WARDINE BE CRY.
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>>7392306
she be hurt
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>>7392206
bait/10
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I would highly recommend that you read the Wardine be cry-chapter from the novel Infinte Jest by David Foster Wallace
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Go to "da' hood" and walk around for a while.
Also use the habitual be.
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>>7392295
>>Wtf?

yo! so this bitch i mash, y'know, she be squealing and i rubbed her so hard she went all black and blue, asphyxiation and shit turned into a blueberry thems be my jammies made her bed rock y'all seen?

—Eric Pete, Cru$hed Ice

While Coleman is obviously the superior stylist, as seen in the climactic rap revelation-reflection (a street lit trope) in B&B, Eric Pete's 'blow out style' that waves off the norms of punctuation and capitalization adds a layer of verve and punk to his breakout Ice. The novel was originally styled 'Cru$hed I¢e' but the publisher made a mistake and with the book's immediate success the misprint stuck.
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ITT: triggered cu᠎cks that can't handle ironic racism
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>>7392353
more
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WE
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WUZ
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>>7392260
That's hella outdated, tho
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CRUSADERS
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N KNIGHTS

FUS RO DAH
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>>7392324
Okay, I mentioned the Wardine chapter as a joke. One jest is enough... OP do not read the Wardine chapter.
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>>7392375
I've been basing my c.uckoldry novel off of that though... why is it bad?
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>>7392378
The keking in IJ isn't too explicit, an obvious repercussion of DFW not kekolding ever. If you would like to write about black kekoldry I suggest you listen to a lot of hip-hop and attend a party with predominantly black human creatures. You will be able to study the steps of kekoldry, please be aware that this sexual ritual is very loud and obnoxious. I would also suggest participating in the steps to achieve kekoldry, and kek a black female. Black female specimens can kek like no other specimen can, however, I would suggest purchasing ear plugs. Note that black language varies by location but these people have very similar habits regardless of location. Many of the younger folks travel in packs at slow speed, usually playing loud hip-hop music from their electronic devices. Language varies, but regardless of location they avoid the rules of the English language and mix up tenses. Always carry a pocket Urbandictionary, it gets confusing.
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>>7392400
But I like black dick, not black pussy.
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Basketball American is the current NAACP preferred term, OP.
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>BIX NOODS MUDDAFUKKA
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/r/ing that photo of the ghetto romance book passage with the woman vacuum sucking the guys dick while visions of Benjamin Franklin danced through his head.
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>>7392291
https://youtu.be/WI3hecGO_04?t=1m42s
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>>7392125
Substitute "th" with "f".
Substitute "sk" with "x".
Every sentence with yo and ends with nowutI'msayin.
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James Lafond might help you write dialogue.
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Do it like this

>DAMN NIGGA I SURE LIKES ME SUM WADDUMELLON WHERE DA WHITE WIMMIN AT YEAH MUFUGGA IMMA GO TO DA STO TO ROB A NIGGA DA PO LICE THEY THE REASON I AINT NO RICH NIGGA I DINDU NUFFIN SHIIIEEEET BITCH HO NIGGA
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>>7393047
The joke got old after the second time. Sorry you won't get as much upvotes on this comment.
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>>7393049

Shut up nigga Imma bust yo ass in too I b partin yo ass like the red sea

We moses n shit you ugly ass nigga
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>>7393050
>>>/s4s/
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>>7393049
>>7393052
>triggered
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>>7392125
read from Nickles to Ounces

https://books.google.com/books/about/From_Nickels_to_Ounces.html?id=bVJLPKjTUkIC
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I'm black and I'm hurt :(
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>Write a black character that talks like Mark Twain would've had him talk in an otherwise completely serious novel set in the present.

>Enjoy the shitstorm
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>black character in a high fantasy setting
>talks exactly like the whites
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>>7392125
*smack smack* NOW HOL UP
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>>7393119
Really? I thought they had a bit of an accent
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>>7392258
Love this meme, wish it got the recognition it deserved
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awful thread
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>>7392125
Could anyone actually give a serious answer to this? I've looked for resources on black slang in the past but a cursory search only ever yielded "lists of words that whites stole from blacks" and the like, which are not only uninteresting but limited to a dozen or so of the more obnoxious fadwords du jour.
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>>7393189
AAVE
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>>7392206
There is literally nothing wrong with cousin fucking
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>>7392149
This. Bix nood if former, My fellow americans if latter.
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>>7392125
http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/aave-is-not-se-with-mistakes.pdf

You can probably skip the first few pages.
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>>7393333
Nice.
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>>7392125
The same as the dialogue for your white characters, except with Caps Lock on.
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>>7392250
I posted it first, cunts

>>7392306
>>7392324
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nigger
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>>7392378
The kekoldry in IJ isn't BLACKED kekoldry. JOI is the kek, and is keked by John Wayne (pre- and posthumously) and probably Tavis. Pemulis even begins to utter the world "kekold" before he's interrupted.
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Just watch the wire nonstop and you'll get it.
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>>7393123
kek
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>>7393333
>liberal academia has actually descended to this level in its quest to ascribe every dumb thing blacks do to literally anything but their genetics
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>>7392146
laff'd
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>>7392125
http://englishtoghetto.com/

yo ChecK Diss $itE OutII <-::SWAG Me OuT::->
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Threads like these are good, they provide catharsis for /lit/
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end lots of their sentences with "hey!", "ooo-wee!" or "whoa!"
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>>7392125
Look how Black Library writes for Orks, then take out the cockney accent and replace it with "edgy urban"

For example:
"Boss! Weeze gotta go! Da hoomie Dakka 'ere is too strong!"

"Yo nigga! We gotta get outta here! Dese Popo's is armed to da teef!"
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Lots and lots of apostrophes, read Uncle Tom's Cabin for examples
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>>7392146
> Watermelondrea
Hehehehe
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>>7392125
Lots of 'Oh Lawdy' and 'Sho 'nuff', and make sure they have a very pronounced fear of ghosts.
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That's a good question OP, you know I'm not one to write novels but I think, it's rather easy to figure out when you look at how black people themselves act on various social media websites. I'd say that's an accurate representation of how they'd speak in written form, straight from the horse's mouth.

Das it mane dat be a good q for real SON. aye u kno i aint a nigga to be writin shit but i tink it be easy as fuck figur how a nigga be writing shit by lookin at a nigga on da fb kna wa im saying . its fo real nigga how we speak in da write from a niggas mouth SON
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>>7398513
Also be sure to throw in a lot of desu senpais.
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>>7392488
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Bump for more racism
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>>7392125
That exact same money box is in my parent's front hallway by their front door, and I just so happen to be staying at my parent's place right now.

It creeped me the fuck out when I was younger and made me scared of black people for a bit.
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>>7398908
>It creeped me the fuck out when I was younger and made me scared of black people for a bit.
Haha that's fucking great
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>>7398908
looks like u got red pilled at a young age
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Persons of Color are always calling each other 'Monica'.
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>>7400418

someone shop a cock over the pills pls
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I think Confederacy of Dunces basically nailed it. The trick is to both convey their childlike minds and the broken English which is all the average negro is capable of.
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>>7400529
For Monica.
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"wardine be cry"
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>>7400646
'Basketball be bouncin, Monica.' J'Kwando said. Tha gym speakers were blastin 'Hey Hey Hey Hey' syncopated between claps. R'Konkomo looked at him. Her dark lashes blinked down, up. 'You one dumb nigga, Monica.' She said. An air horn blast rapidly from dem speakers, more rapidly then they do like for real.
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>>7400643

more like this?
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>>7392125
Listen boy, watcha have to do is try for once to talk to real black people, you understand?
You nigga can't keep spending your life in that room of yours, you know momma laquisha ain't ok with it. She literally works her ass off all day for you to keep watching those chinese cartoons while sitting on your lazy ass.
Write some real shit and make money outta it for once.
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>>7400713
See dat blue triangle nexta ya post #? Dat be where you kin reverse image search dat shit, Monica.
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>>7400672

Yea nigga yea
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Just go to your local BLM protest with a tape recorder to see how modern black folks talk to each other.

>Remember not to shoot anyone.
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>>7400982
I wish black persons of colour would stop shooting each other. How could Americans have let the system become so crooked that they turned on each other in pursuit of peace and love. :')
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Read sherlock holmes. Doyle nailed it
>“The door had flown open and a huge negro had burst into the room. He would have been a comic figure if he had not been terrific[…]

>“I won’t ask you to sit down, for I don’t like the smell of you, but aren’t you Steve Dixie, the bruiser?”

>“That’s my name, Masser Holmes, and you’ll get put through it for sure if you give me any lip.”

>“It is certainly the last thing you need,” said Holmes, staring at our visitor’s hideous mouth.”
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>>7401017

>“I won’t ask you to sit down, for I don’t like the smell of you,

Holmes is so fucking based.
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Ask a colombian, or negro congolombiano as they call each other
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Talk to some black people. Alternatively, go on Youtube and find videos of black people talking.
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>>7392146

>Watermelondrea

kek
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Just write normally and then run it through gizoogle.
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Watch movies about black people, but not comedies, and not about slavery
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>>7392188
10/10
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>>7403059
>"Playa" not underlined
>"Ludd" for "lubb"
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EVERYONE IN THIS TROLL HAS BEEN TROLLED BY EACH OTHER
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http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/ask-an-elderly-black-woman-as-depicted-by-a-sophom-29855
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This thread proves that pol is hiding here.
>>>/pol/
>>>/his/
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Wardine be cry.
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>>7396822
>>7403006
>Watermelondrea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ

Enjoy.
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control f "wardine"
9 results
'course
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>>7404962
You would not believe how many of these are real names I have encountered at work.
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In my country black people speak the same way as everyone else.
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>>7404975
And people think white people have weird names.
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>>7404897
>triggered
Jokes on you DFW is literally relevant to the topic.
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>>7400633
>broken English
nope. Read Gates
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Ebonics
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>>7405295
Nothing to do with being triggered, pol is in lit. Saw a few self proclaimed racist in other threads
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>>7406009
Not all racists browse /pol/
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>>7401031
Why you lurking /lit/ argentino?.
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>>7407418
That may be the case, but all racists need to be contained in there.

Just like we have the pony containment boards, racists have theirs pol & b
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>>7392149
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>>7407854
DFW and writing is literature, deal with it.
>>>/t/umblr
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