[RginTN]

Some black parents do not insist on proper English and this is what happens.

Its not black English its poor parenting.

My parents insisted my brothers & sisters speak well.
We don’t use slang like the n word because we were raised not to.

My mom will still correct my 30 something sister’s language.

[dr_lew]

Children learn the language that they hear. Admonishments are futile. I might as well complain that my grandchildren don’t speak proper Chinese.

[Utilizer]

Indeed. One of the heroes I still remember from High School was Mr. Davis. His dad was a real nice guy, worked at the cannery in Santa Clara County and managed to get most of his kids into college.

I had never seen a black man swell up and turn purple with rage until one of the kids in class had the gall to tell him that what he was teaching us was "too white", and My classmate could not be expected to learn it because "I's black".

Mr. Davis's response was obviously not what the kid expected, and the rest of us laughed about it for months, and until the day I graduated I could always make him hide a smile and cough in embarrasment whenever I brough up the incident. To this day, he is still "Mr. Davis", and his dad is always "Sir".

[Tainan]

Bless Ya and Welcome to Free Republic.