Posted on 08/06/2013 12:04:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Her language skills and her (lack of) reading skills cause me to wonder how she managed to get past the third grade. She is the prime example of what’s wrong with our schools. She should have been flunked repeatedly until she mastered the requirements of each grade. But instead, she was passed on each school year in hopes that the next teacher in line might have better luck.
I refuse to believe that she couldn’t do a LOT better if she applied herself. But she never had to do so because the reward of graduation was given regardless of achievement.
By refusing to learn actual English they opt out of the world of work and prosperity in exchange for Official Victimhood and parasitic living.
My aunts, uncles and mother all graduated from Miami Edison High School and went on to lead productive lives. One uncle founded, ran and owned a large chain of banks in Florida for many years and was friends with President Nixon and other worthies and an aunt was the school nurse at Rutgers University for decades. They were poorer than Rachel Jeantel could ever imagine back then.
That lifestyle will soon be a thing of the past. I don’t know when it will become unsustainable, just that it will. There was a day in Rome when bread and circuses were no longer doled out and that day will arrive here, as well, sooner or later. Now we have EBT cards, Obamaphones and reality television, but it’s basically the same thing.
We all come from the same cloth....Can’t change......I still liked those cotton Khakis starched....with a starched field jacket trussed up correctly. Spit shined jump boots just so...
Shudder more when you ponder that Jenteal is pretty much the level we need to be dumbed down to in the name of equality.
I believe Huxley called them Deltas and Epsilons. I also believe that we are living a bastardized cross between 1984 and Brave New World. Realirt outside my window seems to verify it more with each passing day.
This is bullcrap.
Rachel’s communication problem wasn’t because she was speaking “black English”.
Rachel wasn’t understandable because she refused to speak loudly enough, and she mumbled.
Yes, sir.
Oh, Mrs. Cleaver...
He can call it Shinola but it it’s still just...
“Black” English = Uneducated.
You left out the barf alert.
P.S. Does Rosetta Stone offer a course in "Black English"?
They won’t wait for the dumbing down.
Watch for the pro-active appearance of Diana Moon Glampers.
I do not question that the young lady speaks a dialect of English. However, the fact that she does not speak standard American English will limit her and any other person speaking a dialect of English when it comes to getting a job.
People can speak any way they want at home and among their friends but should be aware of the impact a dialect different from standard American English will have on their careers.
Academic studies not withstanding, schools need to communicate these impacts to students. Speaking a dialect of English will not get you in the university or medical school.
Who wants a job when you have TANF, EBT, Section 8, SSI, gubmint cheese, Obamaphone and dozens more things?
It’s implied if your IQ is higher than Miss Rachel.
South African Trevor Noah does part of his “Born a Crime” stand up sketch on Leno. Worth the commercial and the watch, funny as all get out.
About halfway through, “Their command of the English language has no equal,” talking about American Blacks’ use of English, which is why I’m posting this here.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/316914
Where be my free helfcare at?
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