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"We're going to stretch the envelope as far as we can and chip away at 209," is the word in the story from Nate Miley, city councilman and vice mayor of Oakland.
The sentence comes from Geneva Smitherman, a professor of English, the director of the African-American Language and Literacy Program at Michigan State University, the author of the books Talkin and Testifyin (1977) and Black Talk (1994), and one of the people quoted most frequently by reporters and commentators seeking context for the national controversy over "ebonics"--a form of Black English recently granted official recognition as a separate language by the Oakland, Calif., school board.
(Oakland is 43 percent black.)
He was honored as an elder statesman of the avant-garde, housed in Oakland by Bobby Seale, hired as a guest lecturer at Berkeley, embraced by white hippies.
Its progenitors: Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco, brutish sluggers for the 1988 Oakland A's.