I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.
I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.