Posted on 02/23/2018 7:04:28 AM PST by C19fan
A documentary currently being screened at dozens of campuses nationwide promotes the idea that “African American English” is something to be appreciated, celebrated and championed, that it’s a common thread and bonding tool among descendants of slaves.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
Das whack, yo.
Tell that to PAians. Little known that they have a syntax all their own. Blacks pale in comparison for bad grammar!
I simply won’t hire anyone who does not speak well. Preper grammar and annunciation are the minimums.
It’s slang, why? Because it changes from day to day, week to week, year to year.
Jean Quan was a visionary, apparently. Maybe not.
Heh, I believe you mean ‘proper’.
Weird Al, champion of white supremacy ... er, grammar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
All other things being equal, if you had to choose between someone who speaks proper English (and presumably can write grammatically correctly) and one who speaks (and presumably writes) improper English and uses a lot of slang, who would you hire? This applies to all races and ethnic groups.
There is seemingly no end of self-defeating behavior and beliefs in this world.
Many “scholars” ate apparently idiots.
#2 - post of the day.
I thought we wanted to get over having been enslaved (not that any of these people were ever slaves). And what about black people descended from non-slave Africans?
Also, several studies have shown that the peculiar constructions used in black English prevent children from learning and understanding, particularly mathematics.
“Black English” is, after all, nothing but the result of the fact that slave owners in many parts of the South refused to let their slaves have any education. It was a capital crime in some parts of Georgia and South Carolina for anyone to attempt to teach slaves to read, and also to evangelize and baptize them. The slave owners did not want to admit that their slaves were human beings.
I don’t see why modern blacks should want to enshrine this and celebrate it.
Pidgin English.
I’m sure Shakespeare would have written his plays in this exalted tongue, but, alas, he was ignorant of its beauty.
Word, ‘numsayn’.
Keep promoting the divisions.
This is just another up-front declaration that blacks are incapable of performing at the level of whites. They cannot be expected to get a voter ID card and now they cannot be expected to learn proper English. They are selling themselves short right out of the gate.
Youins arnt makin’ fun of us? Make me a sammich.
It makes the life of an English teacher when all grammar mistakes can be shrugged off as “appreciated, celebrated and championed.”
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