Nigger museum archivist says not to write nigger narratives in bix nood

[justin igger]

[QUOTE]

Enclosed is a memorandum of Mr. Lomax with suggestions for simplifying the spelling of certain recurring dialect words. This does not mean that the interviews should be entirely in “straight English”—simply, that we want them to be more readable to those uninitiated in the broadest Negro speech.

Very truly yours,

Negro Dialect Suggestions
(Stories of Ex-Slaves)

Do not write:

Ah for I

Poe for po’ (poor)

Hit for it

Tuh for to

Full list here:

https://www.accessgenealogy.com/blac...uggestions.htm

[Cracka Jack]

"Nigger museum archivist"..

That's rich. Perfectly natural occupation for a species incapable of thinking more than 30 seconds into the future, and whose history consists of 100,000+ years with absolutely NO advancement.