Paying The Dues Savan Summary
In “What’s Black, Then White, and Said All Over?” Savan traces common “pop talk” that has its origins in African American vernacular. Savan’s article also discussed about “Paying the dues.” Now what “paying the dues” means may have many different significances, but what I think it mean is quite evident based on the passage. This would have been unthinkable once. Even fifteen or twenty years ago, car makers were loath to show black people in commercials for fear that their product would be tainted as inferior or, worse, as “a black car.” So it is not all bad, this commercialization of black talk, especially if it can get to the auto industry to move from shunning to quoting African American. The media stealing the black culture just to create