A journalistic lesson in racism

St. Petersburg Times ^ | December 23, 2003 | ERIC DEGGANS, Times TV/Media Critic

[Amelia]

It's that context and a sensitivity to different readers' perceptions can mean everything in modern journalism, when any story can ride the Internet around the world in a heartbeat.

In other words, we must print mindless pap in an effort not to offend anyone, anywhere, at any time.

[AbsoluteJustice]

A MUST PLAY!!!!

http://wavthis.com/E.html

Scroll to the Ebonics language lesson and click on the green button and open from its current location. It is a ZIP file. Unzip it to a location of your choice then launch it!!!

FUNNY AS HELL!!!!

[bk1000]

Thought the 'me' had more of a broag than 'my'. No one
really knows what a shizzle is, anyway.
(I too, have been a bit embarrassed at needing subtitles during an 'english' film)

[Agnes Heep]

He concluded it "too closely parallels the racist vernacular of previous times ....

What, last week?

[duckandcover]

I'm troubled. Does this mean that I, someone who does not speak the hip-hop "jive," (is that the right word?) can no longer rely on learned brethern for a translation of otherwise un-understandable language?

I'll never be knowin' wash you takin' 'bout now.