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1 posted on 06/28/2021 8:31:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
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The Ebonics controversy again.


2 posted on 06/28/2021 8:34:26 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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insisted teachers’ enforcement of standard English rules is an assault on “black language.”

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

3 posted on 06/28/2021 8:37:04 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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Why was the Ebonics Beauty Contest canceled? Because nobody wanted to be Miss Idaho.


4 posted on 06/28/2021 8:38:54 AM PDT by Nateman (Click on my name to see how America can be saved.)
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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?

5 posted on 06/28/2021 8:43:23 AM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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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?’


8 posted on 06/28/2021 8:47:27 AM PDT by SMARTY (In most places in the country, voting is...a right and a duty...in Chicago it's a sport. D. Gregory)
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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...

10 posted on 06/28/2021 8:51:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (RAPE isn't penis violence. ARSON isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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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

12 posted on 06/28/2021 8:52:32 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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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)

13 posted on 06/28/2021 8:55:05 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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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.


14 posted on 06/28/2021 8:55:44 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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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


18 posted on 06/28/2021 9:00:57 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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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.


19 posted on 06/28/2021 9:02:28 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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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.


20 posted on 06/28/2021 9:03:35 AM PDT by greatvikingone
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Have we reached peak stupidity yet?


22 posted on 06/28/2021 9:14:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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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.


26 posted on 06/28/2021 9:20:13 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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My English teacher in 7th grade (long ago) was a black, handicapped woman...who’s probably rolling in her grave with these idiots suggestions.


29 posted on 06/28/2021 9:26:20 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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Normalizing the results of decades of poor educational role models is all they have left.

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

31 posted on 06/28/2021 9:43:36 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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“Razes”?


34 posted on 06/28/2021 9:48:47 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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Because they’re so racist that they’re afraid they might act white, we have to lower all standards to their level.


35 posted on 06/28/2021 9:50:42 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will definitely kill you.h)
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40 posted on 06/28/2021 1:09:08 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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I am from Jackson, MS. I had black teachers in every grade. Every one of them spoke English well. They were articulate. They grew up going to segregated schools and managed to perfect English and taught white children to read and speak English well. They had beautiful reading voices and taught their students those skills. When I think of great voices, I think of James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman and my teachers.


42 posted on 06/28/2021 3:11:27 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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