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English: The Language of White "Oppressors"-professor: Ebonics superior to tongue of White Devils
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| 8-4-05
| Jacob Laksin
Posted on 08/04/2005 5:06:34 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: lOKKI
I was in a discussion with another poster about South Africa. The poster said that the black students were forced to learn Afrikanners so that they would be steered into demeaning occupations. The struggle to end Apartheid had as a goal the teaching of English to students to better prepare them for the world. (I'm paraphrasing to some extent what was said.)
My point is that here in the United States black students can avail themselves of the opportunity to learn the language and excel in it. Yet some students refuse to learn it, and some very foolish adults think that is just fine. If ebonics doesn't "segregate" black students from a chance at a decent living, and assimilation into society, then I don't know what else will. My view, is that "ebonics" is a form of self induced "apartheid."
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posted on
08/04/2005 4:18:25 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
To: SJackson
English is the most powerful linguistic tool ever invented. It has 500,000 words in relatively common use, more than three times larger a vocabulary that the next largest language, French with 150,000 words. Literature in English is as painting in France, music in Germany or sculpture in Italy, the pre-eminent cultural medium for the art form. In a technical capacity only German comes close and English allows a clearer and more concise expression.
Ebonics is a fadishly obscene admission of failure.
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posted on
08/04/2005 4:26:59 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
To: mhking
Well of course Ebonics is superior to the language of White Devils. I don't know White Devil or Black Devil language; I think I heard Red Devil speech before, but I just use American English. I did read a little Latin back in high school, but it is a dead language and a least a human one. Any Goths out there speaka the White Devil? Maybe a few Haitian Voodoo Lords know it? She should contact them.
To: hineybona
Wait a second.If a teacher called blacks DEVILS he'd be fired in 10 seconds flat.Why is this racist allowed to teach another day ? Because everybody knows he's a loser teaching losers. No need to stop the idiot from hanging himself and his idiot followers.
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posted on
08/04/2005 6:35:26 PM PDT
by
Jorge
To: BraveMan; Calpernia
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posted on
08/04/2005 6:50:25 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(God doesn't like moderates, Rev 3:15-16)
To: mhking
Those critics who question whether rap music, with its on reliance grammar-averse Ebonics slang, is an effective medium for teaching literacy are dismissed by Parmar as craven apologists for bourgeois hegemony. "Rap music causes moral panic in many because of its 'threat' to existing values and ideologies held by the dominant middle class," asserts Parmar.[2] On the strength of no evidence whatsoever, Parmar also claims that "research has shown that Ebonics is a legitimate systematic language."[3] Nor does Parmar doubt that the explicit lyrics and violent subject matter of rap make perfectly appropriate learning aids for young children This teacher should be sued and kicked out of the school for promoting and spreading mental atrophy in young children. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
To: SJackson
Professor Parmar sounds like one angry and delusional black woman, using her podium like a sledgehammer against those who do not share her views.
...I believe Mr. Goldwyn should file a lawsuit against her, and the school for her excessive abuse of the grading system...I'm quite certain that he probably didn't attend that school free of charge.
As a matter of fact, this sounds like a job for David Horowitz and his campus organization.
This is Political Correctness run seriously amok.
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posted on
08/04/2005 9:41:19 PM PDT
by
T Lady
(The American Left: Useful Idiots for Terrorist Regimes)
To: Plymouth Sentinel
Please take the time to read the articles. He is a she.
Thanks.
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posted on
08/04/2005 11:51:53 PM PDT
by
thegreatbeast
(Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
To: Enterprise
She was good at it too! lol!
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posted on
08/05/2005 3:41:59 AM PDT
by
Alia
To: Coleus
To: BureaucratusMaximus
To: sauropod
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posted on
08/05/2005 7:39:22 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(Polite political action is about as useful as a miniskirt in a convent -- Claire Wolfe)
To: SJackson; All
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posted on
08/05/2005 8:22:53 AM PDT
by
SteveH
(First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
To: SJackson
craven apologists for bourgeois hegemonyWHA'CHOO TALKIN' 'BOUT, WILLIS???
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posted on
08/08/2005 7:38:52 PM PDT
by
albertp
(Malice in Blunderland, The Wizard of Odd, Gullible's Troubles! Steal the wealth, spread the poverty.)
To: SJackson
To: SJackson
Well sure, Ebonics rocks?
But they had to cancel the "Ebonics Mis Amerika Pagent".
They couldn't get anyone to be Mis Idaho.
To: SJackson
pparmar@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Have at it. I did.
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