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. ***
A simple question. What's so bad about segregation?
Most whites are uncomfortable around blacks.
Most blacks are uncomfortable around whites.
Given their druthers most members of both races self-segregate.
Integration, which is mainly forced, creates nothing but needless friction; on a daily basis.
What great good would be lost if people were free to associate with whoever they wanted to associate with, and not associate with those they did not want to associate with?
For those who will immediately yell "RACIST": I am not talking about seperate drinking fountains.
I am talking about FREEDOM.
Radical idea.