The Annals Of Ebonics

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
A reader reports:

I just heard one of the anchors on MSNBC say "I got this" when she was cut to for a breaking story. I suspect soon we will be hearing Andrea Mitchell telling David Schuster to "fall back."
Indeed.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/03/the-annals-of-ebonics/6829/