Most have been expunged of the exaggerated black dialect and the overt references to blacks.

Raised as a black man, he speaks in the black dialect spoken during slavery.

It was all in black dialect, and I didn't speak it.

Dialogue, it should be noted, is spoken in dense rural black dialect and diction.

As usual, Charley's black dialect came and went, perhaps at will, perhaps randomly.

He switched to a midwestern white man's version of black dialect.

Beck used a black dialect for the voice of Buzzy.

She recalls that in the 1970's researchers tried to use books written in black urban dialect to enhance reading and writing skills.

This may seem a small point, but it reinforces a larger one: Obama's mispronunciation obviously had nothing to do with "black dialect."

But what about the modernist poets and patrons who tried to reproduce authentic black dialect?