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Students Hooked on 'Ebonics' Are Being Groomed for Failure
INSIGHT magazine ^ | June 3, 2002 | Nicholas Stix

Posted on 06/04/2002 9:16:59 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen

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1 posted on 06/04/2002 9:17:00 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Stand Watch Listen
It is harder to pick yourself up and climb out of a deep hole than to curse the light shining above.
2 posted on 06/04/2002 9:21:56 AM PDT by ZeitgeistSurfer
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Sounds like Ebonics is an attempt to create a generation of failure such that welfare payments become disability payments.
3 posted on 06/04/2002 9:22:10 AM PDT by evolved_rage
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They not be gettin' good jobs when they be graduatin'.

Word up.

4 posted on 06/04/2002 9:24:04 AM PDT by pabianice
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I certainly don't believe in educating kids in "Ebonics." But this does raise an interesting issue. When I was in Jamaica a few years ago, I became fascinated by the Jamaican Patois dialect. I spent some time learning about it.

The thing is, it is virtually unintelligible to a native English speaker who doesn't speak Patois. You definitely need an English/Patois dictionary to understand any of it. So is it a dialect, or a language?

Whatever it is, I found it beautiful and believe it definitely worth preserving -- eventhough it is obvious that anyone who speaks only Patois and cannot speak correct standard English will be doomed to a life of poverty.

5 posted on 06/04/2002 9:24:49 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: First_Salute; George Frm Br00klyn Park;EdReform;Mad Dawgg; BureaucratusMaximus; Academia List...
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6 posted on 06/04/2002 9:25:48 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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My girlfriend is from Zambia. She speaks 14 languages plus English and French. She has a difficult time understanding Ebonics. She considers it stupid and gutteral; a language for the lower village classes. I.E. the enslaved illerate.


7 posted on 06/04/2002 9:28:21 AM PDT by vannrox
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Ebonics is the result of a poor education and irresponsible parents who never took the time to speak like a human being. What's worse is they pass the inability to converse with correct grammar on to their kids. Ebonics is like perpetual literal welfare.
8 posted on 06/04/2002 9:28:26 AM PDT by finnman69
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To: Stand Watch Listen; Afrocentricity
Ebonics is a pillar of Afrocentrism. It is a movement which, using intimidation, violence and pseudoscholarship, has dumbed down the education of black children beyond recognition, illegally barred whites from teaching black children and deliberately cut poor, black children off from the mainstream of American life.

Attempting to deliberately isolate one’s ethnic group from the mainstream when that group possesses no economic power is truly a recipe for disaster. Had an outside group attempted to have done what the “Afrocentric” leaders have accomplished, they would be held in the same regard as the Nazis.

In reading the examples of ebonics, I was struck by how amazingly inefficient it is, often using 2 or 3 phrases to express the same thought.

On the bright side, fluency in ebonics can be useful in communicating to your co-worker on the back of the garbage truck.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

9 posted on 06/04/2002 9:28:58 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
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The Klan in its wildest, most conniving imagination could not do any better than this.
10 posted on 06/04/2002 9:30:05 AM PDT by N. Theknow
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You, my friend, have found yourself a pearl among women.
11 posted on 06/04/2002 9:32:52 AM PDT by Xenalyte
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"Experts" tell us that ebonics is three things: 1) an African language that is genetically passed on among blacks;...

And where on the chromosome bees that gene?

12 posted on 06/04/2002 9:38:48 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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I have no objection anyone learning and maintaining proficiency in any dialect or langauge. The purpose of public education is to provide children with a common education, a (minimal) proficiency in language, mathematics and other knowledge necessary for one to function in society. That includes competency in standard English. Any school in the United States that does not teach standard English fails its students and the public.
13 posted on 06/04/2002 9:39:50 AM PDT by CatoRenasci
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Did you hear about the Afrocentrist man who wore a tuzedo to the hospital when he went for a vasectomy?

He said: "If I'm goin' to be im-poh-tent, I wanna look im-poh-tent!"

15 posted on 06/04/2002 9:40:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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Soory about that -- "tuxedo" :-)
16 posted on 06/04/2002 9:41:03 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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17 posted on 06/04/2002 9:41:19 AM PDT by mhking
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Yes. I am sure there are many Black surgeons who say:

Yo.Ho. Han me dat blade I be cutting dis ol groobedy thang here. No, Ho. Not dat groobedy thang dis here groobedy mofo thang. Oh S**T! Now dey be suin' us. I'll be makin sho dey sue yo too, yo ole honky ho, yo be a nurse den I be de King of Sweden.

One can only hope that it will be a proponent of Ebonics on de table. it is one thing to appreciate a dialect and another to try to intentionally use it to separate the people you are trying to fleece from the population at large. parsy.

18 posted on 06/04/2002 9:42:52 AM PDT by parsifal
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To: robertpaulsen
And where on the chromosome bees that gene?

Jus' ovah yonder by th' riddum jeans an' da wata'mel'n jeans.

19 posted on 06/04/2002 9:43:25 AM PDT by CatoRenasci
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To: N. Theknow
You have hit the nail on the head.
20 posted on 06/04/2002 9:45:24 AM PDT by earonthief
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