only a fool

[Malignd]

<<Why are Black students and Latino students doing
better? Well, there are lots of reasons, but one
reason is that the Black Power era of the 1960s and
1970s focused attention on the contemporary
characteristics of speech and the social, educational,
political implications of language. But, time was
needed to come round to where we are today and more
time is needed to get to where we need to go. 

In the 1940s and 1950s, the focus was on the origins
of African American language. This research is quite
painful to read. It often attributes the language of
Black Americans to the baby talk between master and
slave, to biological determinism, and the like. It is
obviously biased and full of linguistic chauvinism,
White Anglo speech being the ideal from which Black
talk degenerated because of the inferiority of Blacks
and their lack of virtue, so on. Amid the social and
political upheavals of the 60s and 70s, a shift from
historical to synchronic research began. .... [Much
More] ...>>

This is so painfully narrow and reductionist and
unsubstantiable, it's all but impossible to address.

Stated in this fashion, as if this is the whole truth,
renders such truth as there may be in it false.



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