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Democrat Rips ‘Black English’ On Fox: Black Leaders ‘Have To Stop Making Excuses’ For Rachel Jeantel
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Posted on 07/02/2013 6:55:19 PM PDT by chessplayer

Fox and Friends’ Gretchen Carlson led a panel discussion Tuesday morning addressing the now-controversial speech of Rachel Jeantel, the chief witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman trial. Carlson took issue with linguist John McWhorter’s defense of Jeantel’s speech as an articulate use of “Black English,” and asked if such a description was “possibly offensive.”

“Anthropologists, historians, they will say Black English is a language,” Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene said, adding:

“It’s not a language that’s gonna get you to graduate from high school, to go to college, to find a job, or to keep a job. We have to stop making excuses for this type of conversation that is happening in our communities. All too often we have leaders, like John McWhorter, talking about the history and talking about where it comes from, but like the slave trade, where this language is based from, it should be a thing of the past. It should be okay for people who have a platform, especially African Americans in the media who have a platform, to say this is unacceptable. This is not how our children should be learning. This is not the best way to move them forward”

“I assume you’ll take hits for saying that,” Carlson said.

“Absolutely,” Greene said. “Jesse Jackson did when he called it something like ‘garbage dialect.’”


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To: dirtboy

Extremely well said!


61 posted on 07/02/2013 8:08:14 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Kim Jong Un won't have a single "bad underwear day" unless/until we've a patriot in the White House)
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To: goat granny

I know exactly what you mean; the Quicky Marts the Asians replace the mechanics’ bays with are hardly “friendly” (though they are used more to sell cigarettes or lotto tickets - coffee drinkers usually go to a Dunkin’ Donuts or a bagel shop). All of our air pumps now cost $.50 or $1; so much for “air is free”.

Because many of them are “unbranded” gas stations I don’t go to them anyway; they’ve been in the news here selling watered-down gas (using the excuse that the delivery drivers leave the caps off the underground tanks). They still had to fix the cars, though.


62 posted on 07/02/2013 8:08:57 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Blacks are their own worst enemy. Whenever any one of them from the hood tries to climb out, they are either dragged down by the bros and hoes or ostracized for acting white.

Yep.
And "parents" don't make it any easier for their children to escape the culture of made-up names.

63 posted on 07/02/2013 8:10:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: GeronL

He be, she be, you be, I be, they be, we be, it be. Brilliant in its simplicity.


64 posted on 07/02/2013 8:11:39 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: NKP_Vet
And on top of that she was a smart-ass that should have been warned by the judge to straighten out her attitude or kicked out of the courtroom.

The judge showed her pro-prosecution bias by tolerating the misconduct. She also probably feared being branded a racist if she acted. A white witness with equivalent misbehavior would have been warned by the judge within 30 seconds.

65 posted on 07/02/2013 8:15:55 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: brooklyn dave

Archie Bunker was from Queens.


66 posted on 07/02/2013 8:17:02 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: GeronL

“Free” schooling? we are paying more for it per pupil than ever! If money spent paralleled results, even with inflation, we should be raising an army of highly skilled geniuses, taught by equally brilliant educators.

Actually, I feel sorry for her, because she is a victim, doomed to fail LONG before she was born - around 1965, I would say. If a total miracle took place tomorrow, it would take 50 years to undo the damage. But it’s got to start somewhere.


67 posted on 07/02/2013 8:22:51 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: LouAvul

“When they complete their confiscation of power, ‘da black man be outta luck.’ Cause the immigrant could give a rat’s rip about the black experiment.”

Well Lou, I wonder if any intelligent, articulate and genuine democrat elected official will ever let the black community in on the scam. I bet the black community is all in for immigration cuz the white man been holdin em back.


68 posted on 07/02/2013 8:29:14 PM PDT by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: VerySadAmerican
I still have to wonder if the prosecutors aren’t blowing this case because they didn’t want to prosecute it to begin with.

No, the race-baiters & black hate-mongers & perpetual white-guilt class (in other words all democRATs & liberal moderate Repukes), wanted this case desperately in order to portray this as a white on black hate crime. In reality, this is a classic, hoodlum, black criminal thug attacking GZ as GZ was making his way back to his car.

Black-on-black crime, no big deal.
Black-on-white crime (95% of the crime), good, the whites get what they deserver.
Minimal white-on-black crime....HOW AWFUL, PROSECUTE THE WHITES FOR 50 YEAR TO LIFE!

The reason the prosecutors are blowing this case, is because they have no case! All the evidence points to TM's thuggery & unprovoked attack against GZ! Unfortunately this is a show trial, a witch hunt, and even though GZ is completely innocent of 2nd degree murder charges or manslaughter charges, the media & political liberal hacks & the special protected black class, are crying out for a conviction and I firmly believe they will get their wish, irregardless of the failure by the prosecution. This is a political show trial & witch hunt, no doubt about it.

69 posted on 07/02/2013 8:32:40 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: luvbach1

“He be, she be, you be, I be, they be, we be, it be. Brilliant in its simplicity.”

Linguistically, this is actually very true, and is just the continuation of a trend of the loss of irregular verbs. When I was a kid, if you said “dreamed” you were quickly corrected; now, when I say “dreamt”, I get looks.

And don’t forget “is be”, as in, “I is (I’s)be going to the store”, which may be something like a combination of present and a little bit of future tense, as far as I can tell.


70 posted on 07/02/2013 8:37:06 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: VerySadAmerican
I still have to wonder if the prosecutors aren’t blowing this case because they didn’t want to prosecute it to begin with

Thats what I've been thinking, what a fiasco.

71 posted on 07/02/2013 8:38:55 PM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: luvbach1

“The judge showed her pro-prosecution bias by tolerating the misconduct. She also probably feared being branded a racist if she acted. A white witness with equivalent misbehavior would have been warned by the judge within 30 seconds.”

Tolerating this IS actually racist, for the same reason that it would be wrong for me to beat my dog because it can’t play the violin well. Judges wouldn’t put up with that from a 14-year old - age is not the reason here.


72 posted on 07/02/2013 8:40:57 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: NKP_Vet

I went on a tour of a coal mine in Beckley, West Virginia a couple of years ago. In all honesty, I heard a couple of the tour guides talking and could not understand one of them at all. He literally reminded me of Boomhauer from “King Of The Hill”. I actually asked my mom if he was speaking English. It was really funny.


73 posted on 07/02/2013 8:41:30 PM PDT by hout8475
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To: cripplecreek

None of the blacks that worked for my family in Louisiana in the 50s and 60s spoke like that. They all spoke well. There were a couple of exceptions but they could read and write too. Many of todays black youth are just illiterate because they can’t be disciplined at school and their parents don’t care. Before welfare black families cared about appearances and being educated.


74 posted on 07/02/2013 8:51:44 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: chessplayer

Geez - quite a turnaround for Greene, who once referred to Tucker Carlson as ‘the white guy in the bowtie” and drew a rebuke from Megyn Kelly - there may be hope yet.....


75 posted on 07/02/2013 8:57:55 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: True Grit

Even worse when you get an Ebonics Grad on a customer service call. Many times I’ve said “I can’t understand you. Please get me another service rep.” or “I can’t understand you...can you please speak more clearly?”


76 posted on 07/02/2013 9:15:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: kearnyirish2

There is a Burger King on Rt. 46 in Little Ferry/Teterboro that has what appear to be Polish cashiers on duty at times. I may need to do more research.


77 posted on 07/02/2013 9:32:25 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: chessplayer

I watched two pretty well dressed (track suits & good shoes)black guys strike up a conversation. They started with what I guess could be called Black English but when they learned that one was a lawyer and the other in finance they quickly switched to English.

It seems that each thought that Black English was the first language spoken by other black men.


78 posted on 07/02/2013 9:44:06 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Fight the culture of nothing.)
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To: chessplayer

I have a friend who became a teacher and went to work (early 80s) in the Richmond CA schools teaching very young, mostly black children.
She had to learn ebonics to teach there because the schools said if she didn’t teach in ebonics the children would not understand her. “They have their own language”.
No wonder we have education problems in those communities.


79 posted on 07/02/2013 10:00:59 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: chessplayer

Thre is a Democrat seeking to be unemployed.


80 posted on 07/02/2013 10:01:36 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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