Yeah, let’s put black people at even more of a disadvantage in the job market.
Ahh yes... Ebonics.
Consider this the “Balkanization of English.” We have seen this before, it is merely meant to divide people. Remember the tower of Babel?
They (the Left) think Blacks can’t learn to properly use the English language. What is next? Get rid of math?
Their racism is unending...
Yesterday someone posted an article by Malcolm-X on the white liberal being the greatest threat to the Negro. And here’s further proof.
Perhaps teach Standard English in one set of schools, teach the hip hop urban hood dialect in another set of schools, and let parents choose the set of schools that they feel will be the best match for their daughters and sons.
Language—grammar, spelling and pronunciation—is like dress: it creates an almost insurmountable first impression.
Remember when Oakland, CA school board president Jean Quan was promoting Ebonics as a language? Then she became mayor.
Insanity.
Maybe you can get clerks at the unemployment or welfare office or Barbara Billingsley to be semi-bilingual and talk ebonics.
Teachers demand? A good quick firing is on order.
So, they’ve butchered the English language and all the rules of grammar, and now they want acceptance of their ghetto speak? Should we get rid of spellcheck also while we’re at it? Because you know, proper spelling must be rooted in racism too, right?
I”m sick of this, count me out.
Screw that far less than ten percent of our college students are black and most of them know how to speak proper English.
The world does not change to make up for the badly educated blacks whom affirmative action shoves off on the colleges even though they are not prepared to study and succeed at a college level.
Talk about division.
I don’t just mean the obvious racial division. When people can’t effectively communicate with one another, that will lead to misunderstandings that will most likely, at least in the current climate, result in further hatred and violence between parties. Communication is important, and it’s worth noting that in the past twenty years or so, each graduating class of high schoolers is increasingly less and less able to properly communicate what they’re thinking and feeling and why; if they even realize why.
It’s horrifying.
Are you sure this isn’t from the Babylon Bee? Sure sounds like the kind of nonsense they gin up. If it’s real, those people are real morons, handicapping students from the get-go to take their place as leaders, not ghetto thugs. That’s the only place black colloquial fractured English is used, not in boardrooms. Then they’ll go and say “Da white man kept me down!” No, it was the libtards who kept you down.
If teachers are no longer willing to teach reading, writing and arithmetic, they no longer serve any useful purpose.
Will there be an end to this insanity?
They can teach them whatever language they like.
Just remind them that I give grammar tests before I hire. Those tests are written in English.
This reminds me of a SNL Weekend Update joke. The news item was that Oakland had just held its first ebonics spelling bee. It was still won by a smart Korean kid.
Some several decades ago I was riding a city bus and sat behind two young black girls. They were having an energetic conversation of which I couldn’t understand a word. It came to pass that one posited a question to the other. The response came back, Wha? The back and forth repeated for perhaps a dozen iterations until finally the first girl very slowly enunciated,’you gwan to Bobby’s lawn party? Having cleared this communicative hurdle, the two resumed their jabbering at full speed. I came to understand that while the objective might have been to exclude me from inviting myself to the lawn party; in practical terms, they could barely understand each other.