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I'm sorry, its Black America that tells young kids to not do "white things" to be succesful, which is probably why a low percentage of Black America is successful.
originally posted by: AnkhMorpork
Whapp'n? cool runn'n mon, we's be ire mon.
Edit: I guess that was more Jamaican than Ebonics, although I don't know the difference.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: prepared4truth
This has to be one of the most insanely close-minded OPs I've ever come across on this site. I get more and more disappointed every time I login here.
Well since people who can't speak "proper English" are just stupid and lazy, how about this...
How about I tell you to go work in the sun all day, every day, and cut off your access to sun screen? Oh, you must just be too genetically recessive and lazy to absorb sunlight like all the other dark skinned people of the world!
I thought our motto was to deny ignorance, not bathe in it.
No.
The idea is that they be allowed to speak and write it all the time in place of professional English because it would be racist to expect them to do otherwise.
Every other group is expected to learn and use professional English in school. It's not that they're expected to give up their old language or dialect, merely that the school's job is to prepare them for the working/professional world. The reality is that Ebonics are not used in that world, so the student needs to learn to be fluent in professional English alongside Ebonics and how to switch between them as appropriate like every other student with either a dialect or second language is expected to do.
What does that say to you that we want to carve out an exception only for African-American kids? To me, it sort of looks bad like we don't expect them to learn when I know they can.
originally posted by: SBMcG
i have as much (if not more) "imagination" than anyone you know. If I didn't, I would not be successful at what I do for a living.
The bottom line is, this is about race, social meddling by the Left, and the reality of the market place.
If I chose to mongrelize a language like Swahili, are you telling me employers should go out of their way to accommodate me on the grounds that even though I was utterly useless to them as an employee, my incomprehensible babbling was simply a "rich outpouring of human cognitive process"?
originally posted by: prepared4truth
Ebonics is not a second language for Black people. It is the closest thing Black people have to their first.
originally posted by: SlapMonkey
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
Maybe she was Jamexican?
Gotta love those jerk chicken tacos!