only a fool

[S.R. Prozak]

> 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.

Yes, but this is a sentimental/religious taboo, and not a logical one.

People prefer sentiment to logical reality.

This is no news to a Pynchon fan! It's just depressing to see, isn't it?


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