Talk:Potogee
Latest comment: 6 years ago by -sche
This is probably Guyanese Creole rather than English:
- 1991, Brackette F. Williams, Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle (Duke University Press, →ISBN), page 64, quoting "a middle-aged man drinking with two companions":
- Iz me Potogee? Naa me, everything wan Blakman! So why oi mus' kai dis Potogee title fo' mek mesef wan rass? Naa so 'caus Potogee deh in me veins? But what good 'e dus do me? Me ah still everyt'ing wan Blakman.
- (Am I Portuguese? No. I am an African, a Blackman. So, why must I carry this Portuguese surname that makes me an ass? It is not because I have some Portuguese ancestors or blood? But what good does it do me? I am still only, or behave solely like, an African.)