Posted on 06/27/2002 9:17:56 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh
(June 26) -- The National Fair Housing Alliance has partnered with Stanford University education and linguistics professor Dr. John Baugh to study the impact of linguistic profiling on housing discrimination.
This summer, Baugh will track the instances of bias that the housing markets show toward speakers of non-standard English over the telephone. Baugh says speakers who do not "sound white" often are discriminated against over the telephone. "Even though the courts are reasonably well equipped to prosecute cases of face-to-face discrimination," says Dr. Baugh, "they have a hard time understanding and applying the law to linguistic profiling, and that's where this research will help."
In addition to the NFHA, the study will be supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation's program on Asset Building and Community Development.
What the heck is non-standard English? Does that include people who speak with a lisp or a brogue?
What the heck is non-standard English? Does that include people who speak with a lisp or a brogue?
I missed that in my first read.
As you are most likely labeled by the liberals as racist, you of course didn't think about the obvious....Ebonics.
A black "sounding" potential renter allegedly didn't get his calls returned whereas a white "sounding" person did.
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