Posted on 07/02/2013 6:55:19 PM PDT by chessplayer
Fox and Friends’ Gretchen Carlson led a panel discussion Tuesday morning addressing the now-controversial speech of Rachel Jeantel, the chief witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman trial. Carlson took issue with linguist John McWhorter’s defense of Jeantel’s speech as an articulate use of “Black English,” and asked if such a description was “possibly offensive.”
“Anthropologists, historians, they will say Black English is a language,” Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene said, adding:
“It’s not a language that’s gonna get you to graduate from high school, to go to college, to find a job, or to keep a job. We have to stop making excuses for this type of conversation that is happening in our communities. All too often we have leaders, like John McWhorter, talking about the history and talking about where it comes from, but like the slave trade, where this language is based from, it should be a thing of the past. It should be okay for people who have a platform, especially African Americans in the media who have a platform, to say this is unacceptable. This is not how our children should be learning. This is not the best way to move them forward”
“I assume you’ll take hits for saying that,” Carlson said.
“Absolutely,” Greene said. “Jesse Jackson did when he called it something like ‘garbage dialect.’”
Jehmu Green should have tied in the poverty industry with “ebonics”, or should learn about it. A lot of people make a lot of money by treating blacks like herd animals; there is a whole political/educational/social service industry around the phenomenon (and those are the people who would defend that illiterate sow).
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It will the black “leaders” who trash truth telling but only because the media gives them a platform.
How many of you have ever gone to the drive window of a fast food place and tried to place an order. Like listening to a foreign language......best you can do is “what the hell give me two of them.”
Now the democrats are doing the same to whites.
Keep them ignorant and illiterate so they can’t survive off the plantation.
I’m suprised Jesse didn’t call it ‘young dung tongue’.
In Europe it is considered impolite to speak dialect in public instead of in the common tongue, unless one is sure that everyone present speaks the dialect.
Continue to sound like you are from the ‘hood and you can guarantee you will never get far from it.
In my area (northeastern NJ) it is a foreign language; many blacks and whites lost those jobs to Hispanics. The whole staff (100% of them), except the manager - he’s an Arab (always a “he”).
I’m not kidding.
Conformity on steroids. Step out of the role, and you will be ostracized.
They’re ‘teens’ dammit!
I once called 911 here in Philly (don’t remember the indecent) but after several attempts, i asked the person on the other end of the phone to speak English because i could not understand a word she said.
“And the illiterate, disrespectful “star witness” for Martin should have definitely been closed captioned.”
They’ve started using this on some of our news broadcasts here in NJ, where they are interviewing some recent arrival from the Third World speaking in broken English. It is odd because you can often understand what they are trying to say, and the subtitles still show up on the bottom of the screen like you are watching a BBC newscast from Africa or something like that...
I saw that segment and it is the ONLY time I have EVER agreed with her. Other than that....I can’t stand her.
Tell me, what in the world is a "Democrat strategist" doing on a panel discussing Rachel Jeantel's grammar?
Could it be because a teenager's speech patterns and her testimony in a court case is...political?
Lenin was right: "Everything is political."
soon those who speak actual english will need the subtitles and captions in Jive or Ebonics or whatever
wow.
“soon those who speak actual english will need the subtitles and captions in Jive or Ebonics or whatever”
Only if they actually deal with people speaking
English like 3 year-olds; many people in their everyday lives never see these people, and would only do so if they got a hankering for White Castle or something similar (which less people that can read an ingredients label would ever eat anyway).
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