So a 200 pound slab of ghetto attitude doesn’t want to speak standard American English? This is a surprise. “Privileging” one dialect allows intelligibility, coherence and accurate communications.
Show me one piece of good literature or poetry, a technical manual or assembly instructions written in this putative alternate dialect of English.
We’ve all heard this lame Ebonics alibi before. Give it a rest. Standard American English is the language of the productive, the useful, the law abiding, the ones who used to make this country work.
“Standard American English is the language of the productive, the useful, the law abiding, the ones who used to make this country work.”
That’s right; now apply the same lax grading standard to math, history, etc., and you have the current state of education in urban black (and increasingly in white) education. No way to compete in a global workforce, especially when the foreigners come here and quickly grasp the language better.
You could also compare this thread to the standard english spoken and written 100 years ago and make the observation that all of us are speaking a less intelligent version of the language.
When I read this I immediately though of several electronics owners' manuals, written in pretty bad Asian/English.