College Symposium Razes the Anti-Black Racism of 'Good' Grammar

https://redstate.com ^ | By Alex Parker | Jun 27, 2021 2:00 AM ET

[Sans-Culotte]

The Ebonics controversy again.

[ConservativeInPA]

insisted teachers’ enforcement of standard English rules is an assault on “black language.”

Or maybe, just maybe, it is required for effective communication.

[Nateman]

Why was the Ebonics Beauty Contest canceled? Because nobody wanted to be Miss Idaho.

[SES1066]

Consider this, these are TEACHERS who are NOT TEACHING their students! Unless they are lying with these statements, they are passing their students with deliberately imperfect language skills. Then said students look for employment following their expensive education. Unless they get a 'woke' employer, they may have trouble in getting a good job.

Now imagine that they also had a teacher who believed that "2+2=4" is a sign of white-supremacy! Would not that be a real shame as well?

So who are the victims of these teachers? How is it helping that they are allowed to teach in such manner as to diminish their student's potential?

[Red Badger]

Life imitates art.........................

[Red Badger]

If I have a political party whose power stems from ignorant disaffected, poor people, you better believe I will make damn sure I never run out of ignorant disaffected, poor people.................................

[SMARTY]

If you can’t make yourself understood and if you can’t convey what you mean...why bother getting an ‘education ??

Where I worked with grad students, some of them were actually incapable of speaking properly.

One in particular, I asked several time to repeat what he said.... and STILL I could not understand what he said.

Finally, I told him: ‘If you are spending 4 years doing all this work and spending so much money for an ‘education’... then why do you want to sound like a person who is uneducated?’

[ConjunctionJunction]

What was his reply?

[GOPJ]

Professor of Language, Literacy, and English Education April Baker-Bell — of Michigan State University — insisted teachers’ enforcement of standard English rules is an assault on “black language.” Furthermore, per Campus Reform, she indicated black Americans bear a burden of racist violence.

April Baker-Bell is straining on a gnat...

[combat_boots]

Samuel L Jackson and you went to the same school?

;>

[Robert DeLong]

The title of this article gives one the wrong impression:

College Symposium Razes the Anti-Black Racism of 'Good' Grammar

Definition of raze: demolish; tear down to the ground; destroys.

I see no where in the article that Anti-Back Racism of " good grammar", was destroyed. It was pushed hard that blacks should not have to engage in good grammar, because that is racism. Razes should be raised in my opinion, for what it's worth. 8>p

[Sgt_Schultze]

Hahaha! Towson University again?! Here's a blast from the past when their "debate" team was considered great . . .

https://youtu.be/fmO-ziHU_D8?t=54

such skills (uh . . . uh . . .uh)

[BBQToadRibs2]

No skin off my back if you can’t land a decent job because in the interview you speak like a street rat.

Seriously, if you can’t speak your native language fluently I kinda question everything else about you.

[Steve_Seattle]

For many blacks, avoiding proper grammar seems to be an act of insolence and defiance, of “sticking it to the man.” I’ve noticed that recent black immigrants don’t usually have that attitude, and often speak excellent English.

[Red Badger]

That IS their ‘native language’!......................

[Red Badger]

I think it was a ‘pun’....................

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If English is the language of White Supremacy why do so many African nations use for their “Official” languages English, French and Portuguese?

https://www.tripsavvy.com/indigenous-african-languages-1454069

[Jimmy Valentine]

So I should shuffle foot around and speak like Stepin Fetchit. Yassuh boss.
Just please drop dead. I’m a well educated white man who speaks the American standard and have no interest in sounding like a runaway slave.

[greatvikingone]

Did we consider hillbillies and rednecks before merging onto Offended Avenue?

I’ve never had a need for people to identify a subjunctive mood, but clear communication is vital to understanding.