Posted on 10/11/2020 6:17:00 AM PDT by karpov
On August 3, the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication approved a position statement on “Black Linguistic Justice.” The statement was crafted as a set of “demands” that “teachers stop using academic language and standard English as the accepted communicative norm.” The “Four Cs” is the largest and most important professional association for college-level writing teachers and is closely associated with the National Council of Teachers of English, an even larger group whose membership is mainly composed of secondary school English instructors.
The lengthy and repetitive statement is actually entitled “This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice!” In a clumsy adoption announcement, the CCCC urges teachers to view the statement “as presenting a set of actions for us to enact, not just encouraging words.”
To what has the official body of college composition teachers given its imprimatur? In a word: politics. In two words: separatist politics.
While acknowledging that progressive “CCCC/NCTE policies in relation to multilingualism have been vital to classrooms and communities,” the statement avers that not nearly enough has been done on the political front. Educators “must be activists” (italics in the original).
In language that invokes old Dixie rather than the 2020 schoolroom, the CCCC statement portrays American schools as places where black children meet nothing but disrespect in their English classes. Language instruction as it is now practiced is said to “seek to annihilate Black Language + Black Life.” Thus, educators are called to engage in a “political process that must inherently challenge institutions like schools whose very foundations are built on anti-Black racism.”
The statement was crafted by six self-described Black Language scholars, all of whom are on the faculty of large universities.
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Well, now you know why Jamel can’t read.
We’s gotta start using black language you mutherf-—ers.
Dumb down the future electorate.
The dhimmicraps are a patient lot...
Kinda like muzzies in that regard...
Ban all dissionaries.
They are too restrictive/oppressive for language-creative minds (using ‘minds’ loosely). They limit speech with singular definitions.
Daniel Webster was White, you know.
I suspect those academic frauds wrote their “position paper” in Standard English the better to be understood.
So Ebonics raises again!!
NOT SORRY!
One of the most bizarre characteristics about leftists is that they are hell-bent on regressing backwards to primates.
Not to mention the havoc pidgin English will do aircraft controller communications..
“We’s gotta start using black language you mutherf-—ers.”
wez b doin dats fo long times. slap sheeet mofo! wad it luk lik!
Tell “them” to stop trying to dignify Ebonics for anything but private and informal speech.
Business English helps all of us communicate.
For some of the same reasons English is the universal language of pilots. At least that’s how it used to be.
The biggest advocates for dumbing down public speech wish to excuse those too lazy to try and learn proper speech.
What’s race got to do with it?
These people can’t speak their own native language.
Pathetic individuals. Welcome to the permanent underclass.
Rumor is Michelle Obama wrote her graduate school term paper partially in Ebonics. Hér sentences were poorly diagrammed.
She saw formal English as a White, Patriarchal construct that had outlived it’s usefulness.
This sounds like something white people would dream up
How about a black form of “Pidgin English”.
Can you imagine a doctor writing a prescription in Pidgin for an English speaking pharmacy to fill? What will you get?
How much lower do we have to set the bar to accommodate those who refuse to learn?
Is there anyone more racist than a liberal? The blacks I meet in my daily life are accomplished, capable people who speak proper English.
Why do liberals want to coddle anyone who refuses to learn?
Answer: to keep those people dependent on them.
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Integration and de-segregation are the goals of the civil rights movement. 1964. Oh wait...This is 2020 separate and unequal...and two sets of standards. The illegitimacy shall be the new standard going forward.
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