Like Ebonics? As i-if?

[David Casseres]

Kathleen Fitzpatrick sez

>Don't know whether this is really all that interesting, but I was struck
>by it over my early a.m. coffee.  The Washington Post this morning has
>an article in which Jesse Jackson is clarifying his position (at first
>strongly against the use of Ebonics in the classroom), which makes
>it clear that the Oakland school district is *not* attempting to
>declare Ebonics a second language but rather a distinct language
>*pattern,* and that they aren't arguing for the teaching of Ebonics but
>the use of Ebonics as a tool through which to help teach standard
>English.

Yup, another case of the media's wretched slide into Limbaughism, just 
like the highly falsified story of The Little Boy Who Got Suspended For 
Sexual Harrassment By Politically Correct Liberal School Teachers After 
He Kissed A Little Girl.



Cheers,
David