Posted on 08/04/2005 5:06:34 AM PDT by SJackson
Yo... dat be cool, dig?
Few great societies are out right conquered at their prime. Usually when the conquering armies arrive, all they're doing is kicking in the rotting walls and watching the rats and roaches run. In other words, most great civilizations first rotted from the inside, the conquerers just gave them the final push. Ebonics is another symptom of the rot.
This has nothing to do with minorities and everything to do with an underclass and a broken educational system. Unless you consider uneducated rednecks or hillbillies who speak just as badly, minorities, you are way off.
"Discriminating on the Basis of Political Disposition"
has to be the scariest thing I have read in a long time. Sounds like only leftists need apply to teacher's college.
And yet, throughout India, English is the neutral language so that everyone can talk to each other without giving up their 12 different languages and 400 dialects. Nuff said.
FYI: English is not a Romance (Latin-based) language; it is Germanic.
What good be dem ebonics if yo' don' got no maffonics teechur fo' dem riffmatics?
LOL!!
"I am not going to say that English is a perfect language. The spelling is not standardized and the grammar is tricky."
The reason English spelling is so irregular is because of its roots: English has virtually borrowed from so many sources: French, Spanish, Greek, Latin, German, Celtic, Scandinavian, etc.
And, African. Words like jazz, gumbo, etc., which were donated by slaves. That's the irony. This "professor" claims English is the language of oppressors, when in actuality it is the most open & democratic language of all.
The vocabulary, in fact, is what makes English so wonderfully rich & nuanced.
Black hatred is very very very real. If anyone has the misfortune to sit and talk to one of these people you can not concieve the type of sociopathic stance they take to feed their hatred.
Everyone but black people have no soul. If you do not believe as they do that black people are oppressed and are entitled to TAKE by any means then you are an "uncle tom" or just plain lost.
Sociopathic may not go well with hatred as a decription but it is the best way to describe the experience.
This professor's world view is built around his personal hatred of all things which hate europeans. It is built around tearing others down so he can create some mythical fantasy ancestry that makes HIM the decendent of somether "special."
The scary part is that he is not alone. There are many many more like him, spiting out his hatred. (some even made movies)
This is a required course apparently. That's not very funny.
You should send that to her so that she can incorporate in into her "lesson plans".
Idiots like this guy are one of the main reasons for the continued decline of the blacks and the ruination of music. Bill Cosby is right!
Unfrigging believable. Don't get offended at me asking, are you black? If so, what percentage, do you think, of blacks actually buy into this idiocy?
You know, I worked 2 UN missions during my military time and I got a chance to meet several real Africans. Interesting things: 1. they were all educated in proper oxford english and 2. they all said the same thing: their countries were better off under colonialism then now.
that is an excellent point
I challenge her to explain any of the complex ideas that she just spewed in that hate filled rant using only ebonics.
I'm a firm believer in torturing the English language. I love to do it. I'm the first one you'll find on here saying "I hop you'll soon be vey scroon." I even taught the word "screwn" to one of our editors here at work and she loved it.
But if you don't know what it is that you're torturing you might sound cool as a child but as an adult you just come across as retarded. And you don't get the job.
It's similar to having a name like Lashariashondapotporeea.
For the record we have a woman here named Latoya Lashonda who is vey, vey sweet. I'm glad her name didn't keep her from getting hired.
but those "red neckS" know they speak with a southern accent.
They do not pretend idoms are a seperate "language".
This professor is using her status to push "blackness" as a seperate language as a power tool.
Just like the hispanic people are pushing mandatory spanish upon the government as a tool of balkanization.
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