Posted on 06/28/2021 8:31:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
You get that when black people deliberately mispronounce your name. It’s a “you ain’t the boss of me “ push. Fired my parents cleaning lady after one warning.
Have we reached peak stupidity yet?
Then he should have used quotation marks to emphasize that he was using the word as a pun. 8>)
As a youngster in elementary school in the deep south in the early 60's, I spoke in a hillbilly dialect because my family did. I resisted efforts to speak properly until I was about 11 or 12 or so when I got with the program and started using correct forms of speech and pronunciation. My family never did. They stuck with their Ma & Pa Kettle-like version of English. At some point people need to outgrow traditions that hold them back.
Once again,blacks are stupid,blacks are unable to live in decent society..We must take care of blacks from cradle to grave,etc etc etc........
True story.
My Niece shows up for her Masters Orientation workshop.
There is a Black Female Professor handing out the Paperwork.
While explaining what information needs to be filled out she tells those in attendance, “we needs to know who you are”.
No, it wasn’t an Ivy League School, but I’m sure Princeton and Yale will catch up with the proper Ebonics sooner or later.
It is embarrassing to see a race of people basically claim/admit that they are not intelligent enough to do simple arithmetic, speak recognizable English, or obtain an ID card.
Oops, I messed up.
The proper quote was “we needs to know who you is”.
My English teacher in 7th grade (long ago) was a black, handicapped woman...who’s probably rolling in her grave with these idiots suggestions.
A lot of the students spoke like that and I think THEY thought it made the sound cool or intelligent
It doesn't. It just makes a person sound too lazy or to ignorant to speak properly.
Some Greeks speak their language so well that it's called the ‘the clean tongue’.
Most people (especially young people) have a ‘lazy tongue’ and it shows. When I watch the weather, some of the announcers say ‘metorology’ instead of meteorology and they omit a whole syllable. Duhhhh...they can't even pronounce the name of their profession!! TV new is populated, wall to wall, with people who do not speak like the professionals they insist they are! If you speak like you drank a case of beer, then tied a brick to your tongue ....you are NOT a professional!!
First, they called it "acting white" to justify not paying attention in school.
Now, they call it "white supremacy" and racism to demonstrate higher education proficiencies.
-PJ
Yes, excellent point. African American Vernacular English is not the only nonstandard English in the US. There are plenty of regional Englishes as well that aren’t part of standard English, but somehow don’t seem to factor into the reasoning process of teachers like those in this article who think that standard English is an assault on just black English.
Is it an assault on Ohio English to teach students of all color from there not to write things in formal papers like the following: “The car needs washed,” or “Buckeye cookies are so hard to find anymore.” These are definitely not part of standard English, and students shouldn’t write them in formal papers, but they’re totally fine to use at home or in informal situations. So, white kids from Ohio have to “code switch” similar to the black speakers of AAVE in the article.
The other thing that really gets me here is the assumption that all black people speak the informal “black English” stereotyped from hiphop music. Many do speak that vernacular dialect, but in my opinion it is both classist and racist to assume, as the teachers in this article seem to do, that all black people speak that version of black English. Many black people, for example, speak African American Standard English, which is very different from the stereotyped black English, and which can be read about here: tinyurl.com/a82jy7jd.
Standard English is really just a lingua franca for all speakers of English, no matter what their native dialect is, to use for efficient communication. Plenty of stuff from white nonstandard dialects is excluded, just as plenty of stuff from black nonstandard dialects is. Making it a racist thing like these teachers try to do just doesn’t work.
I worked with grad students from Africa who spoke beautiful English and I don’t mean just the English accent.
They spoke very well and made themselves understood...it went hand in hand with their lovely manners and unfailing courtesy.
“Razes”?
Because they’re so racist that they’re afraid they might act white, we have to lower all standards to their level.
I looked at what you wrote and could not figure out what was wrong. My white supremacist brain, automatically took out the s in needs.
Annnnd they revel in their stupidity
I understand. The “who you is” gives it away though. #;^)
That is what mad3 me go back and look again.
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