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In addition to appearing in the works of Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison, there's a lengthy explanation of CP Time in the December 1972 edition of Black World magazine.
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Also known as "colored people's time," CP Time is an inside reference within the black community on the tendency of black folk to show up late for just about anything.
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CP Time actually is an example of Black people's effort to evade, frustrate and ridicule the value-reinforcing strictures of punctuality that so well serve this coldly impersonal technological society.
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Black people always seem to be late and, in fact, have been late so often and so predictably that they themselves have coined a term for it: CP Time, Colored People's Time.
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Black people always seem to be late and, in fact, have been late so often and so predictably that they themselves have coined a term for it: CP Time, Colored People's Time.
Black History Month: An Explanation of CP Time by Your Very Delayed Guest Book Editor Baratunde Thurston 2010
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In addition to appearing in the works of Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison, there's a lengthy explanation of CP Time in the December 1972 edition of Black World magazine.
Baratunde Thurston: Black History Month: An Explanation of CP Time by Your Very Delayed Guest Book Editor Baratunde Thurston 2010
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Also known as "colored people's time," CP Time is an inside reference within the black community on the tendency of black folk to show up late for just about anything.
Baratunde Thurston: Black History Month: An Explanation of CP Time by Your Very Delayed Guest Book Editor Baratunde Thurston 2010
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CP Time actually is an example of Black people's effort to evade, frustrate and ridicule the value-reinforcing strictures of punctuality that so well serve this coldly impersonal technological society.
Baratunde Thurston: Black History Month: An Explanation of CP Time by Your Very Delayed Guest Book Editor Baratunde Thurston 2010
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Black people always seem to be late and, in fact, have been late so often and so predictably that they themselves have coined a term for it: CP Time, Colored People's Time.
Baratunde Thurston: Black History Month: An Explanation of CP Time by Your Very Delayed Guest Book Editor Baratunde Thurston 2010
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