Imagine thinking “the national press” is trying to ✌🏿make ‘jawn’ happen ✌🏿

two Americas. or should i say: two Delaware Valleys.
Look, i hate the tourist-ification of this word, too. But we were saying this long before all these suburbanites decided they wanted to get their reverse-white flight on and putting it on t-shirts and ugh
Oh, a Penn Law professor from Montgomery County doesn’t like a piece of appropriated Black Philly slang?

Well, that settles it then.
“As a born-and-bred New Yorker...”

Bruh, you from Rye. Relax.

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Is this dude on #MarriedAtFirstSightatlanta with the conk/combover related to Kelly Oubre?

Same last name, both from New Orleans...
@bmluse. What do you have me watching?

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Dog, you’re on a Lifetime reality show
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His personal relationship to his grandfather is revealing, too.
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how seriously can you take anyone who thinks mainstream media outlets are organized around the logics of critical race theory?

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