It ain't only Rock & Roll, it's Jazz too

[S.R. Prozak]

> Young white children in school have their language
> corrected as well; they are taught a prescriptive
> grammar as part of their education and with scant
> regard to the colorful and expressive but incorrect
> syntax often spoken by their parents at home.
> 
> That there exists additional biases in some cases
> directed against Black children is undoubtedly true. 
> But it doesn't follow from that that these Black
> children are being further penalized by attempting to
> teach them the rules of grammar, those governing
> educated discourse, being taught to White children.
> 
> Teaching Black children instead some alternate Black
> grammar seems to me a grievous, ghastly mistake, a
> perverse idea that the most hardbitten of racists
> would have been proud to have dreamed up.

There's two views:

1. Assimilation
2. Separation

The only one that supports diversity is #2.

Ebonics seems to me a made-up idea; the real ebonics is on the streets and should stay that way.

14 points :)


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