Posted on 04/06/2017 1:41:55 PM PDT by Zakeet
In classrooms across the country, students might be scolded for using "ain't" instead of "isn't." But a UW-Madison student is working to erase the stigma against Ebonics, also known as African-American Vernacular English.
UW-Madison junior Erika Gallagher conducted research about code switching, also known as code meshing, in which people change their regular speech tendencies to fit into the mold of what is commonly accepted as appropriate.
Ebonics is a variety of English that is commonly found in the center of large cities that have been historically populated primarily by black people. It is commonly found in slam poetry, as well as hip-hop and rap music.
Gallagher, a Posse scholar, began her research during her time as an undergraduate Writing Fellow this semester. She said she realized, as she sat in her seminar class of predominantly white students, that she wanted to focus on standard written English and how it excludes marginalized groups.
"I want to center the voices of the people who need to be centered," Gallagher said. "As a Writing Fellow, as a white-passing person, I have a lot of power and privilege that should be shared."
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White-passing Libtard has a lot of power and privilege that should be shared ... wants to include marginalized groups ... goin learn how to fit in da hood ... yo cracka Freepers be rassist if yo comment on this article.
[UW-Madison junior Erika Gallagher conducted research]
Do you think I could get a grant to research the SOUTHERN ILLINOIS TWANG?
Ghetto slang brings us one step closer to realizing the idiocracy.
The research is niggardly in its citations.
What in the world is a “white-passing person”?
Speak English and pull up your pants. You have $100 Nikes and dress like slobs.
Is Miss Gallagher a reverse Rachel Dolezal? In this case a black woman passing for white? I can't keep up anymore.
I think it is a white human exiting an anus.
Universities giving out accolades and degrees for mental illness, and telling the snowflakes they are revolutionary geniuses.
Gotta keep women college enrollment numbers up to keep influencing their brains and keep them from learning useful things. Then unleashing their idiocy on society.
Please make it stop.
So now they are trying to legitimize Ebonics???
I miss being able to post images.
I would appreciate if someone could post Yoda saying “The Stupid is strong with this one.”
“I want to center the voices of the people who need to be centered,” Gallagher said. “As a Writing Fellow, as a white-passing person, I have a lot of power and privilege that should be shared.”
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Wait? She’s boasting about her white power and white privilege?
She wants to “share” it? Stupid twit. This is to be taken by the libs. Never shared.
I’d like to see her stroll down MLK Blvd some day and attempt to share her white privilege.
That’ll be the last we hear of her.
There is no stigma. Ebonics relies on incorrect grammar, unintelligible pronunciation and a truckload of obscenity. It's the antithesis of language ie a means of communicating.
some of her issues are niggling. Maybe I should axe her...
word for the day:DISCREET must be used in a sentence:
Kids, when you go out to play, stay out of discreet.
Her Facebook is totally public so feel free to ask her anything you'd like.
https://www.facebook.com/erika.gallagher.71
I found in my travels that I would start to use the vernacular of the people I was associating with.
Examples, “No way known, mate”
Hamburger “with the lot”
“it’s a bit dear”.
Did you hear they had a Miss Ebonics Pagent? Yes they did, but there were only 49 entries. Nobody wanted to be Miss Idaho.
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