Um, someone needs to point out to this broad that the native language of black Americans IS English.
Black Americans have been in this country for 400+ years. If English isn't their native language, what the heck is?
"Black Americans have been in this country for 400+ years. If English isn't their native language, what the heck is?"
My grandparents all came to America from Italy in the early 1900's and spoke little or no English. Initially they like most of the immigrants segregated into largley Italian neighborhoods, and were discriminated against by all the groups that got here before them. They made no demands for bilingual education, multi-language forms from govt offices, etc. They didn't see proper English as a plot to oppress them (how sick is that). They came to America to become American, and their children all spoke english as a first language and were fully integrated within a generation.
How far would they have gotten if they allowed their kids to speak English like ignorant quinea's from the old country, especially after 3 generations? Ok, I do talk with my hands alot, but that doesn't count.