Students Hooked on 'Ebonics' Are Being Groomed for Failure*** Afrocentrists such as George Washington University professor Robert Williams, who coined the term "ebonics" in 1973, maintain that it is an act of disrespect for a white teacher to correct a black child. Professor Charles Coleman of the City University of New York's (CUNY's) York College has argued that remedial education is harmful to black students.
Progressive white educators who support Afrocentrists insist that it is wrong to correct students' usage and grammar. Unfortunately, this approach leads teachers to give passing grades on writing-proficiency exams. The CUNY remedial students then are permitted to take college-level classes despite possessing only semiliterate reading abilities.
Many middle-class blacks like to sometimes "go ghetto" and use street slang. But these professionals can speak standard English - in many cases, better than I can - and can always go home. The poor and working-class blacks to whom Afrocentric educators have refused to teach standard English, however, have nowhere to go. ***
I recall something of that sort being said. Imagine the howls if a white leader had asserted that black teachers were not as qualified as whites to teach black children (or any other children for that matter). In this article a "racist" proposition is takne for granted and most certainly not challenged in any way.
"Didn't some "black leader" recently state that whites were incapable of properly teaching black kids?"
Wonder what the reaction would be if a "white leader" said that black kids were incapable of learning from whites?